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wow, nice ones..I built three Junior DC´s from kits, which was fun..scratch bilds are awesome, if you have the workspace and tools..and necks are hard to build..

so, I´d like to know if you can hear an actual tonal difference from your two DC´s..when they´re done..
nice work..

cheers

You are a scientist.

love your builds and this is just amazin

Those look great. I'm a big fan of DC Les Pauls and it's nice to see someone build one.

Did work on neck #2

Planed the ash headstock cap so it was flat. It still had those wavy band saw marks, before...


Routed the truss rod channel. I've noticed in many drawings I've seen, that the deepest part of the arc is in the middle of the 7th fret. I marked the 7th fret and made this as such.


Band sawed the outline


flush trimmed on the router table


Then TOTALLY biffed while drilling the truss access, and put some gauges in the headstock veneer... I'll be able to fill them, but man, I was upset about that...


Measured the length for the truss rod, then burned my hand after cutting it. I don't know how many times I'm going to burn myself on truss rods before I remember that metal gets HOT when you cut it...


Had to do a little mock up. This is the current wallpaper on my phone...


Wanted to demonstrate, once again, that the bodies are identical, and the difference in scale length is achievable by simply adding or removing frets. I can make these in 24(ish), 25.5", 27", or 28.625" scales, just by using a different neck template...


The fillet strip on neck #2 is currently glueing. Not pictured, was planing both of the headstocks down to about 5/8" using a Wagner Safe-T planer...

Really enjoying this progress.

In the past, on my F style neck builds, I've used my straight truss channel jig and a wide bit, with the neck shimmed up 1/8" on the first fret, to cut a flat sloping channel on the back (which looked something like these)



Then I'd use my spindle sander to make the back flat, to match that flat, sloped channel.


Before I'd do the final shaping...

But for these two set necks I slightly modified the same idea, and I double taped them to a flat board, with the 1st fret propped up 1/8" higher than the heel, and I used my Safe T planer to cut a flat plane parallel to the flat board.


I scribble on the middle of the neck here, so that I know not to remove material there when I'm doing the rest of the shaping. Also, I glued in my side dots.

Inspiring stuff. Really interesting read and looking forward to the finished articles. Thanks for sharing.

badd ass.

i dig it.

i'll have to show you my hybrid strat/paul with 24" scale 24 fret neck project i had commissioned back in 1986.