{"id":276,"date":"2012-10-06T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danharrisdesign.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2012-10-06T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:04:36","slug":"pain-in-the-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danharrisdesign.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"pain in the neck"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a lot of work went into this… \u00a0Koa is a tough wood- hard to cut and hard to sand or remove with a rasp. \u00a0I started out on the shaper trying to get the bulk of the wood removed but the neck broke free of the jig and shot across the room. \u00a0Fortunately there was little damage to the neck, the room or myself, but after this experience I took out my rasps and set to work, manually removing anything that didn’t look like a guitar neck. \u00a0Several hours later I was able to start sanding. \u00a0Next up, the abalone dots. \u00a0Once these were dry, at approx. 1AM, I set to work gluing the fretboard to the neck using only hot hide glue. \u00a0I’m finally getting the hang of using this stuff- you have to work very fast, get everything ready before you apply it. \u00a0Sometimes it helps to heat the wood with a heat gun first but in this case I just applied the glue to both objects, pulled the protective masking tape off the truss rod area, and slapped the pieces together. \u00a0Unlike the white or yellow stuff, hot hide glue doesn’t slide all over the place, making alignment easier as I clamped the pieces together. After I trimmed off the excess fretboard this morning, I applied a little tung oil just to see how it is going to look.