Making a bolt-on guitar neck

In this video I show you how I built a bolt-on style guitar neck. This neck has a compound radius fretboard and uses Evo Gold fretwire.

[@Thoseaboutto911]

I would have like to seen the Truss Rod put in and fretboard put down.

[@circlecreeper]

man never seen such brilliant frets geez nice job

[@adamcone6856]

Working my first neck now. This is so gorgeous! Binding just looks so good when done in wood.

[@bishlap]

ooh that fretboard; A thing of beauty.

[@johnnyconner4184]

Wow! I should think that constructing a compound radius neck by hand would be a quite tedious and labour intensive task! I'm very impressed by your high level of craftsmanship. Bravo, sir!

[@flameguitars5770]

Thank you, kind of you. Most of the necks I make are compound radius and I don't think it now takes me much longer than a consistent radius fretboard.

[@frostedhead]

Very nice.

[@javanthomas4122]

Great work. And nice music

[@kewlbns69]

fantastic work!

[@samdobbins855]

Beautiful work

[@flameguitars5770]

Thanks Sam, appreciate that

[@ronnieparfait]

Thank you for not putting that dumb 30 degree angle on the fret ends, I really hate when I see builder pulling out there homemade file in a block of wood just to cut that stupid angle. Very beautiful neck and great craftsmanship. ✌🏼

[@jhaberly]

Wow. This blew me away. This is one of the nicest looking necks I've ever seen. I've got some lumber that I cut with my father from our farm. It would be incredible to make a guitar from it for sentimental reasons if nothing else. It's been drying for 10 years now. I just liked and subscribed. Cheers!

[@flameguitars5770]

Thanks Jim, appreciate that.

[@prime-directive]

Learned a lot from your fret process. Made my very first neck recently and my fretwork came out... less than perfect haha. This will be a big help on my next one!

[@flameguitars5770]

The fretwork on the first guitars I made was not great. This 20 years before KZbin so had to learn the hard way.

[@mcclane12000]

Incredible skills there.

[@perinoveriza1658]

I like your tehnik

[@jamescopeland5358]

Cool

[@strawman3059]

Can't find any videos on how to actually mark out the neck width and length..everyone skips this part!

[@eugenthemain3509]

Wow that's an absolute gorgeous looking guitar, i love it. Keep that work up💪

[@dennisboyce813]

True, the neck is outstanding but I didn't see the guitar. Is it in another video?

[@eugenthemain3509]

I dont think so, but i just assume that the guitar looks nice too xD

[@vincentbrun]

Nice neck, cool videos. Vincent

[@flameguitars5770]

Thanks Vincent

[@CitizenWarwick]

Wow nice!

[@joeking433]

I just don't see how you can get the necessary accuracy needed with hand tools. Especially the fretboard radius, it will be all over the place using hand tools and accuracy is so important because if you're off the frets will not be level.

[@optonaut]

hey - thank you for the nice video. how is that router bit for thickness planing called?

[@flameguitars5770]

Thanks. I think you are referring to the SafeT Planer

[@FloridaManMatty]

That is called a Safe T Planer. You can find them on Amazon, but PLEASE take my advice and get the one from Stew Mac. Theirs is 10x better, stays sharp near forever, and only costs a little more. The off-brand versions are okay, but have problems with tear out and inconsistent cutting. It’s a hard learned lesson...

[@Supertimegamingify]

Wow, it's actually a bolt-on neck.

[@sudiptobose9171]

How much width is the neck blank

[@bilici93]

Great work! could I bother you fore the name of the thing you put into the hole of the neck where it would connect to the body with bolts rather than screws? Thank you very much

[@David-yl6bc]

Gorgeous build! But that planer thing on the drill press is just maniac! I would rather cut off my fingers with an axe, at least that would give a clean cut. Why not just simply use the hand plane?

[@ronnieparfait]

Because the machine tools are so much more precise. Use what you know and stay away from tools you are not sure of, you’ll keep all your digits in the long run.. 🤔✌🏼

[@bishlap]

ah ding of Beauty

[@joecraven2034]

Is it actually better to bolt on the neck as opposed to gluing?

[@kainharkins4860]

Hi that neck is just what I’m wanting to build. I don’t suppose you could tell me the angle required the scarf joint and what thickness the wood was you used before changing the thickness. Thanks

[@flameguitars5770]

14 degree angle and started with a 25mm thick blank

[@ffkammer]

Hi! Great video, congrats! What's this kind of "disc" that you use on your driller to thin the guitar neck?

[@flameguitars5770]

Thanks. It's called a safe-t planer

[@Swanlord05]

@@flameguitars5770 what was the blade that u were using after the spoke shave near the headstock

[@flameguitars5770]

@@Swanlord05 that was a cabinet scraper

[@bobheadzeek]

Hey , what is that drill press attachment called?

[@flameguitars5770]

Its a safe-T-plane

[@rob_in_stowmarket_uk]

H David. Did these frets need recrowning after levelling? If so, which tool do you recommend?

[@flameguitars5770]

I try and install frets in such a way that any levelling is kept to a minimum and therefore little or no recrowning is needed. But for recrowning I have diamond fret profiling tools in 3 widths I bough from StewMac in USA.

[@BartekEVH]

Nice work, but frets not good. Not one Line.

[@chrislj2005]

Lovely job! Ihave a PRS SE that loses tune ; it´s neck thru body.I guess it can be turned into a bolt on?I guess it would stay in tune?

[@javanthomas4122]

What's the flat pice of metal your using on the neck called

[@flameguitars5770]

It's called a spoke shave

[@javanthomas4122]

@@flameguitars5770 i saw that. But it looked like you were using a piece of metal to scrape some wood

[@husseintech1908]

I mean your fretboard came out of now where ! this is really silly !

[@eyeswideopeniam8776]

Very nice-looking neck, but I'd like the video even more if you hadn't left out quite a few steps. Trade secrets maybe?

[@flameguitars5770]

Thanks Brandon. Just trying to keep the video to a reasonable length. Maybe I'll make a more detailed video.

[@eyeswideopeniam8776]

@@flameguitars5770 I can understand you not wanting to make the video too long and I guess most viewers would be satisfied with that. It's great to see what you have done, but I'm a builder so I'm interested in all the little details that would probably bore most people. I readily appreciate the time and effort that goes into making youtube vids, especially well-edited ones, so I'm not trying to pressure you. But if you decided to make more detailed vids I'd definitely watch and learn.

[@johnvrabec9747]

He could make a video with all the steps and simply list the timestamp links in the description so anyone could skip anything they don't want to watch. Easy peasy.

[@benyannay5829]

what you wer dooing with the spoke shave is not cool' it is profiling an it is wrong

[@1983Beardo]

Why?

[@darenrichardson1126]

Ben, many craftsman use different tools in different ways. It is absolutely not wrong. Nice work ... maby on your next video you can try to not skip so many steps