Neck material is a 6′ x 3-1/2″ maple board from le Home Depot. This is an upgrade from the original Dano’s poplar neck. A slight issue is this cheap maple is flat-sawn, hence the grain running across the long dimension of the board. The wood’s strength runs the same direction as the grain though, so it’s preferable to use quarter-sawn wood for guitar necks. My solution is to rip the board into three strips, flip ’em 90 degrees and glue them up with the grain running vertically. Sounds like a kludge, but laminated necks aren’t at all uncommon.
I make up two neck blanks as there’s enough maple in the board to do so. Eventually the spare one will be used in a 6-string telecaster-ukulele thing (ukutele?), or in this build if the fist attempt at a neck fails!
Not shown is the jointing and planing process – after the glue cured, I jointed up one face of the boards and then thickness planed them to 3/4″, which is the thickness of the neck at the heel (where the neck bolts to the guitar body). The rest will be hand-carved into (hopefully) a sweet ‘C’ shaped neck…
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