Today I continued to work on preparing the area where the neck meets the body. Using a chisel, I was able to make the area where I plugged the existing hole flat, also remove material from the mahogany patch.
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| channel after chiseling plugged hole |
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| removing material from mahogany patch |
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| fitting the neck after mahogany patch |
Since I have the opportunity to add custom features on the guitar, I have been looking at what others have done to get some ideas. I'll possibly do some inlay in a few spots, but what I am most excited is adding some black walnut to the headstock. Laura's grandfather made us some solid black walnut furniture and I was able to get some scrap wood that will fit on the headstock. What is on the headstock now is Indian rosewood. In order to remove it, I used a heat gun to loosen the glue and then a scraper to peel it off. I had to be careful not to warp the headstock so I used a hand plane to thin out the rosewood that way I could use less heat for the glue.
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| removing rosewood veneer with heat gun |
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| using a plane to thin rosewood veneer |
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| veneer removed |
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using black walnut for end cap
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| black plastic cap will be replaced with black walnut |
Up next I will be mounting the walnut onto the headstock and installing the herringbone trim and binding.
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