I have been working on the neck for my CBG. Its a through the body neck. I thought I would be creative and add a fret board, or the like. Here is the problem, first off, I do not have the fancy tools, so I couldn't use a band saw or table saw to make the cuts exact. I used my circle saw to rip the oak board down from 2.5 to 2 inches, I just didnt like the width as it was. I used a red oak plank 3x1/4 ripped that down to 2.5 as well, once again I did a lot of leveling as close as I could with a chisel and rasp file and lots of 150 and 250 grain sanding. I marked off the fret markings and made this neck to 25.5 scale, measured the 12th fret from the nut, doubled that for the bridge distance to nut.
I used gorilla glue to bond the fret board and now, 3 hours later I have a mess! My fret board crept sideways about 1/16 to 1/8 inch. Looks like I can plain it some but this neck is not going to be anything masterful, to say the least. I know now I need some better clamps or at least a better technique of clamping.

Q) How do I clean up the gorilla wood glue mess? Will I have to remove the fret board? What is a good way to true out the sides, if you don't have a plain machine? All I have is a chisel and rasp and sand paper.

I am messing up and making mistakes, (meaning not getting exactly what I planned) but so far, next to actually playing music I lose track of time and absolutely enjoy this!!!!

There are so many questions I have it aint even funny. I have scoured through the posts using the search option. Last night I searched for necks and found some awesome pictures that made me both excited and jealous. I told the wife, I need to step away from these pictures and just do it right? She agreed. Intimidating is word I would use. Once I got started though it felt great. I practiced on 8 different scrap pieces of wood to make sure I understood exactly how my circle saw cuts, and wouldn't you know when I started cutting my good piece of oak, I made a nice gouge when I accidentallyGrrr backed the saw up!...Grrrr. I figure I will try and incorporate it into the build somehow...

I have a huge cow leg bone. I read somewhere from a guy who cuts his own nut and saddle. Anyone have experience with that? I am not sure what the best way to cut this bone would be.

As far as I have seen I have not found any plans that deal with bonding a fret board. If you are using a through the body build, do the plans stay the same? Or is there something different I should do when I cut the body to fit the neck.

Like I said I have a dozen questions and I will keep searching the forum for what is already been explained, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I will post pictures tomorrow of what I have so far.