Building the Red Special neck
In this foto collection you see how the neck piece by piece gets into its final shape.
Sawing and milling the rough shapes of the neck
Rough neck with glued wood for the additional headstock shape
Headstock in shape and the milling of the truss rod
Mounted truss rod and glued fret board with tape marks to create a small concavity during glueing
Sanding the shapes of the neck
The pocket of the neck
De gaten voor de stemmechanieken
Compound radius fret board with a scale of 61cm, 6mm dots en side-dots
Carefully mounting the 24 frets, zero fret, leveling the sides etc.
Leveling the frets and the 0 fret for maximum playing comfort