Selmer Project: The dovetail

Did some work on the dovetail body-neck joint today.
First I made an improvised jig from a workmate and a drawer to secure the guitar body.

I made a L shape jig from the StewMac dove tail routing template and a piece of plywood and attached it to the body using glue clamps.

The Mortise is routed using this bit with a ball bearing

Here' s the result, a fine looking mortise.

Next is the neck tenon................

Holiday in Tuscany

Hi I'me on Holiday in Tuscany
Back in 2 or 3 weeks
I hope to bring back some spruce from the Swiss/Italian alps.

Selmer Project: The neck (continued)

Next part of the job is to rout a dovetail connection
between neck and body.
So I need a jig to clamp the neck to get
the right neck angle.
Luckily Stewmac delivered an instruction
on the jig making together with the acrylic templates I bought,
here's the result.

 

 

Selmer Project: The headstock part 3

Made a template to rout the back of the headstock to the apropiate shape.
I attached the template to the headstock using double sided tape.

After routing the headstock I started the first carving of the neck. Just to look how it will end up.
I will finish the neck carving when the heel is in the right angle. I will (hopefully) make a jig for routing the dovetail to the neck and body this week

 

Drilled the holes in the ebony fingerboard that I bought (pre-slotted and radiused) from holszfaszination to receive the mother of pearl dots. I choose to put the dots in the modern style on position 5,7,9,12. in stead of the historical right positions on 5,7,10 and 12. The last might be to confusing for me.

Here's a overview of all parts.