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Made some progress on the roasted neck. Glued on the fingerboard and trimmed the neck. I also trimmed the headstock thickness and routed in the curve behind the nut with a large over bit and a little jig. The good thing about roasted necks they are mega dry and stable. This also means they are really brittle and tricky to route and get tear out. IMG_9122.MOV Love this bit of ebony.

Hello all, Long time BassChatter, first time GuitarChatter. I am currently in the process of a proof of concept guitar…an electric resonator. Here’s the initial design and parts and woods I’m going to be using; Specs will be; 1 piece walnut body Roasted Maple neck hipshot tuners biscuit bridge Monty’s Firebird neck pickup Cream double binding I hope some of you will be interested in seeing this come together.

Body shaping time…I ended up tweaking the shape and going for full on reso shape. Cut from bandsaw; IMG_9125.MOV Routing; FullSizeRender.MOV Final shape.

True, I have templates to do pretty much any scale I’d need. 34/35” 25/25.5” and 24.750/24.625. So I’m set, and now thins is my 10th build ive certainly got my moneys worth from it.

I'd rather go for the jig, why should anyone get involved with maths?

Have you considered hiding your credit card somewhere?

Yea it’s not tricky but like you say cutting it accurately again and again is different thing. Ideally you would also need to have long callipers to measure each slot from the nut but you still might not get them all right.

Thank you. This is my 10th build. I’ve certainly made plenty of mistakes along the way. I have a fret slotting jig, takes some time but means they are done right. This is from another fingerboard but it has a template and a notch that it follows so they are sawn correctly spaced.

I'm amazed by your skills, you're going the full monty... usually people buy the neck and build the rest. How can you get the right distance between the frets (as shown in the pics above)?