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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on December 1, 2011 at 1:46pm

I draw mine out on the computer with a drafting program first. In general, guitar neck angles are about 2 degrees.

If you're doing a neck through design, you can cut the bridge end deeper than the neck end to accomplish this.

If you're doing a bolt on neck you can put a shim in the neck pocket similar to Fender guitars. If you glue on the neck you would slice away the dovetail joint so it's at an angle instead of 90 degrees. 

If you go too deep with any design you can always adjust it with shims.

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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on December 1, 2011 at 1:53pm

I cut off a little wedge from the in-box portion of my neck.  At about 6" from the line where the stick enters the box, I measure down 3/8" and make a mark, and then draw a line from the enters-the-box line through the mark.  And then I cut away a recess so that it does not touch the lid. The end of the stick butts up at the heel end of the box, but does not go through. It is supported from beneath from a little block cut to size, and the tailpiece is screwed into the block/end of stick.

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on December 1, 2011 at 8:09pm

Keep it simple - if you use screws rather than glue to fix the neck it's a 5 minute job to take it out and shim it if the action and neck angle isn't right.

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Permalink Reply by Brian "Pork Pie" Anderson on December 2, 2011 at 1:23am

Check out Jims Videos, most notably the Macanudo build and the scarf joint

Jim Frets Vids

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Permalink Reply by Peter Taylor on December 4, 2011 at 1:29am

Thanks guys and gals...now to cut , saw, plane, glue and screw.. TWANG !!!

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Permalink Reply by Habanera Hal on December 5, 2011 at 2:16am

Here's a good site:    http://www.tundraman.com/Guitars/NeckAngle/index.php

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