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Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on September 2, 2016 at 6:38am

Thanks for the answer, Tim.  Makes a lot of sense to me.

Comment by Tim LaFave on September 2, 2016 at 6:10am

Thanks guys; in answer to your neck question ... I have built several six-stringers without truss rods and they are fine. I use two techniques 1.) always, on all of my builds, I choose wood with a slight bow in it, both neck wood and fret-board, and build it curved side down so that when string tension is applied, it tends to want to pull the neck back straight. 2.) On full-scale guitars, I usually split the neck and laminate another piece of wood in the middle. This feature gives additional support. It is similar to the way guitars used to be built before truss rods came along. In this case, because the neck is shorter it will stand up to the string tension better, so I didn't need to to that.

Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on September 2, 2016 at 3:56am

"Riunite... that's nice..."    ;-)

So with a six-string, did you need to reinforce the neck in any way?  Like a truss rod?  Very cool job, Tim!

Comment by Jerry Jordan on September 2, 2016 at 2:43am

yep .,.,thats the way to do it.,.,xcellent.,,.