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Permalink Reply by Charlotte Henry on January 5, 2012 at 10:20am

JUJU, I've done scarf joints that way but they are so visible.  When I glue on a faceplate and wings to the headstock my joint is wrapped on 3 sides.  It all works, but its fun to see how everybody else does stuff.  The shop where I'm doing most of my building I feel like pulling the table saw out is a pain.  When I was working at home I used my table saw and that jig looks like William McCauley's, but uglier........butt uglier.

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Permalink Reply by William McCauley on January 5, 2012 at 10:54am

If you have something uglier than my jig, I want to see it.

Charlotte Henry said:

JUJU, I've done scarf joints that way but they are so visible.  When I glue on a faceplate and wings to the headstock my joint is wrapped on 3 sides.  It all works, but its fun to see how everybody else does stuff.  The shop where I'm doing most of my building I feel like pulling the table saw out is a pain.  When I was working at home I used my table saw and that jig looks like William McCauley's, but uglier........butt uglier.

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Permalink Reply by bizzaro guitaro on January 5, 2012 at 2:53pm

thanks, thats the way I ended up making mine. I made a jig for my band saw. It works good if I don't rush the process. 

JUJU AKA SOUNDSSOGOOD said:

theres another way that i do a scarf joint have a look at the start of the video it shows the method i use which gives a much stronger joint than gluing the scarf joint off cut under the neck - doing it the way i do it you get two glue joints one on the scarf joint and another on the fretboard to neck/headstock joint = much more glue line = stronger joints

hope it helps :)

http://youtu.be/45S0JJCIE68

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Permalink Reply by bizzaro guitaro on January 5, 2012 at 3:01pm

Charlotte, I use my band saw to cut mine. but I think I will try your way.looks like it might be better. thanks. how did you send the pictures. I don't know how how.

Charlotte Henry said:

I made my jig for cutting the scarf on my necks out of scrap wood from the shop trash can. This is quick to make and it works without a problem but I really use C clamps instead of spring clamps when I actually use it. 

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Permalink Reply by Charlotte Henry on January 6, 2012 at 2:06pm

I did the pictures with my cell phone. I have a photobucket app on my cell phone  so I upload to photobucket  with the greatest of ease.  My cell phone camera is 8 megapixels. :o)  On the top of the message area is a tool bar and to the far left are "Link" "Image" and "Media". Click on image and then follow the directions.

The cut only gets me in the ballpark. I true everything up with a wood sanding block and 100 grit and 150 grit paper and I check the fit frequently until I know I have a perfect joint.  One of the things I'm checking is how square the line is where the scarf meets the top of the board (the part where the fretboard will be glued) and I check that with a square. 

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Permalink Reply by bizzaro guitaro on January 7, 2012 at 12:25am

thanks for your help. so far I've made 7 cbg's.I learn more each time.

Charlotte Henry said:

I did the pictures with my cell phone. I have a photobucket app on my cell phone  so I upload to photobucket  with the greatest of ease.  My cell phone camera is 8 megapixels. :o)  On the top of the message area is a tool bar and to the far left are "Link" "Image" and "Media". Click on image and then follow the directions.

The cut only gets me in the ballpark. I true everything up with a wood sanding block and 100 grit and 150 grit paper and I check the fit frequently until I know I have a perfect joint.  One of the things I'm checking is how square the line is where the scarf meets the top of the board (the part where the fretboard will be glued) and I check that with a square. 

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