I've made a good deal of progress over the past couple of weeks thanks to the people here and especially John Watkins who has been very very gracious with his time and experience.
So now I'm preparing to figure out how to do necks, headstocks and inlay are working and they were pretty easy over all, but necks are a whole new problem. I've thought out a number of processes and none of them are pretty... I do know that I want to carve the neck with the face down so the vollute, heel and neck profile can all be done in one pass. That still leaves the tenon (and offset), and the headstock shape and tuner holes.
My necks have three channels in them, 2 for CF Rods and one for the truss, my current thinking is something like this for a full blank:
1. Cut the heastock face on the table saw to set the nut position for both necks.
2. Use a jig to route the 3 channels.
3. Rough cut the necks shape on the bandsaw.
4. use a jig to cut the necks tenon (or use a jig that flips to do it on the CNC).
5. Clamp the neck face down in the CNC and carve, the heel, neck profil, vollute and headstock back face in one pass.
6. Flip and clamp the headstock in a jig and cut the headstock profile in one pass.
I could possibly do step 1,2 and 4 on the CNC first and then do step 3, I'm just not sure how good it will be at facing the headstock profile, I'm also not sure which bit I should use. I'm joing up some pine today into a neck block so I can experiment with how to approach this.
The two problem areas are how to clamp for the headstock face and how to do the tenon, everything else seems pretty straight forward...
I think I'm just going to have to make some sawdust for a while to find what works and what doesn't....
To the SHOP!!
Thanks
-Paul-
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