If you make a lot of cbgs like I do on occasion and you also make a joint like this for your headstock then here is a little helpful hint.Instead of gluing on a new cut piece of the good wood you use for your neck just use the piece you cut off your last scarf joint and glue it on the bottom. DERP!
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Yes when you got to clamp a doorstop to a flat piece of wood it is a pain in the old butt but if you use a finish nail then clamp it it works great I just monkeyed around with these two till the clamp bit into them but a little nail nailedi n about half way will stop then from slipping around when you clamp them!
I put them in my vice grabbing them by the sides when I put a nail in then clamp it.
Makes sense to me. I bet your pieces slide around less too because the top is flat. If your pieces do slide around a bit I started using a staple gun to hold the pieces together along the seam. I pull them out when dry and add wings to make em wider and cover up the little staple holes
Yes agreed but the way I do it the bottom part needs to be glued on when I cut off the top.
I usually only have around a half inch of the bottom section showing on top of the headstock it depends how short I cut the headstock off.You really can barely tell it is there and after I antique it any way it looks cool. Another thing doing it like this does is the angle of the doorstop peice matches the angle of the top part of the headstock so you don't even have to trim it up on the bottom it's ready to drill your tuner holes!
Just sharing a tip I thought was kinda cool you can save a few inches of good neck wood this way.
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Yes when you got to clamp a doorstop to a flat piece of wood it is a pain in the old butt but if you use a finish nail then clamp it it works great I just monkeyed around with these two till the clamp bit into them but a little nail nailedi n about half way will stop then from slipping around when you clamp them!
I put them in my vice grabbing them by the sides when I put a nail in then clamp it.
Makes sense to me. I bet your pieces slide around less too because the top is flat. If your pieces do slide around a bit I started using a staple gun to hold the pieces together along the seam. I pull them out when dry and add wings to make em wider and cover up the little staple holes
Yes agreed but the way I do it the bottom part needs to be glued on when I cut off the top.
I usually only have around a half inch of the bottom section showing on top of the headstock it depends how short I cut the headstock off.You really can barely tell it is there and after I antique it any way it looks cool. Another thing doing it like this does is the angle of the doorstop peice matches the angle of the top part of the headstock so you don't even have to trim it up on the bottom it's ready to drill your tuner holes!
Just sharing a tip I thought was kinda cool you can save a few inches of good neck wood this way.
if you use the piece you cut off the top the grain will match, and the joint will be nearly invisible