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Posted by Randy Webb on February 15, 2010 at 10:35am
I hate building necks...well thats a lie, I love making anything from scratch, but I get obsessive with the shaping and it takes soooo long. I tried to think of a way to do a neck that was...1. not a square block, needed to to be round and comfortable2. was still fret-able3. easy to attack to a CBSo this is what I came up with. Im sure it's been done before but anyway.one half of these have .75" dowels the rest have 1" dowels. I think the 1" may be more comfortable even with the extra space on the sides of the fretboard.The fretboard is 1.5"
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  • Michael Clark February 17, 2010 at 11:58am
    Yeah, I'm with you Darwin...I actually started working on something like this last week but didn't get very far. I laid a fingerboard on these two wooden dowels I have and said "you know, that may work." Then I called it a day. Nice illustration by the way.
  • Randy Webb February 17, 2010 at 10:35am
    hahaha
  • Darwin Gentry February 17, 2010 at 10:34am
    I don't know about great minds cause I thought about it last week and my mind is pretty weak
  • Bluesheart February 15, 2010 at 10:59pm
    Maybe , but not with such a cool illustration! Great!!
  • Randy Webb February 15, 2010 at 12:35pm
    Yeah, ted saw it and sent me some pics of his similar builds. Great minds right?....lol
  • HENRY LOWMAN February 15, 2010 at 11:17am
    BRILLIANT!
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