meddlingfool wrote:
Sure does. Just so many little steps, measures, marks, alignments and such. Setting the angles, cutting the truss rod slot, cutting the profile for the fight thickness, adding the heel cap, faceplate, logo, yadda yadda. If I do two whole necks in a day I'm well pleased.
I'd be happy if I could do one neck in two days
I do enjoy making them, though. At least, if I'm doing an integral neck (Spanish heel) and not a more complex and tricky to cut joint.Working on one right now, actually. Also a fan fret, but I've done enough of those now that it's hardly any extra trouble. My order of operations is:
1. Make the fingerboard
2. Cut the scarf joint (square, like normal)
3. Thickness the neck shaft blank
4. Cut the truss rod slot
5. Glue the scarf joint
6. Drill position pin holes for the fingerboard
8. Mark the 12th or 14th fret position and glue on the heel block
9. Mark the angled nut line and plane the headstock surface until the transition line to the neck surface is parallel to the mark
10. Cut and sand the headplate edge to match the nut angle, and glue it on
11. Thickness the headstock from the back side
And by that point you're pretty much out of the woods on any fan fret related issues.