Starting a new guitar neck - Building a Single Cut model Guitar (Part 1)

[@davidwellings2783]

Daniel, I absolutely love your work and the clarity of the videos!🍷🍷🎸🎸🥰🥰

[@mindstrongtraining]

Great tip for setting the depth stop on a Triton for the truss rod! Thanks!

[@JohnClothier]

Off to a great start Daniel! looking forward to following your progress. Great tip about setting the depth stop on the router to the truss rod. I will be using that!

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hey John, Thanks mate. I hope to keep up this format during this build. A bit of a faster pace sprinkled with useful tips and tricks.

[@dannyriter4046]

I really like your truss rod routing jig. I am definitely going to leverage that idea.

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Danny, Thank you. It's a pretty simple but also very useful design. Good luck making your own and if you find any improvements please let me know.

[@mrwaffles1394]

Your videography and editing are getting better every episode. Looking forward to the series. Keep up the great work!

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hey David. Thank you for the compliments. It means a lot to me to learn my content is improving.

[@jessijamesguitars7502]

That's a nice headstock Dan, nice work ad always, thanks for sharing your time Dan. JJ

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Jessi, Thanks man. Yeah I’m glad I’ve changed the headstock.

[@jessijamesguitars7502]

@@UnquendorGuitars ye that one is alot better, nice job ,Dan

[@jonahguitarguy]

Always a great video Daniel! A spiral router cutter would change your life my friend. I bought one 3 or 4 years ago. Made by Whiteside, 2" cutter height, bearing is on top when using a router table. So the cutter is always below the work piece. Cost me 100$. worth every cent.

[@eldereth]

Looks great! The new headstock design is definitely much better!

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Eldereth, Thanks. Yeah the new design is much better indeed . I’m glad I decided to change it.

[@mesaton]

Looks great! Thanks for sharing Daniel!

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Ton, Thanks mate!

[@sergivila6908]

Eres un artista!! Gracias por tus videos! Me ayuda en mi proyecto!!

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hey Sergi, Thank you very much!

[@juksuguitars1777]

Like your coffee mug 😇 🇫🇮

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi TheJuksu, Thank you. It’s my favorite workshop mug to be honest. 👍

[@teddinardo8944]

I would like to have you build a neck through guitar for me with some inovasions I have , and cw it ,and brand its , I would like to see your work person before and thank you. all the best , I will be in touch

[@rosalindacaseley6996]

Excellent video!!! Really clear and helpful. Subscribed 😎

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Rosalinda, Thank you very much for the subscription. I'm glad you found my video helpful.

[@russellesimonetta3835]

Huhhhhh! I loved that first neck!!! It looks kind of fenderish now. Still good though.

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Russel, Thank you. Yeah this neck is for the new Sonea model. I still do the previous design for the Nessa models.

[@rec6025]

I'll be making a guitar neck too soon

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Rec. Have fun making your guitar neck. And maybe follow along with this series there might be some useful tips for you in these videos.

[@Jinnuksuk]

One thing I've been wondering a lot about lately... Everybody who cuts out the cavity for the truss rod uses flat/square routers but the back side of the truss rod is rounded where it sits on the neck. Very often guitars twist and it makes me wonder if it's because when the truss rods are made to curve slightly to compensate for the tension of the strings that they slide a little to the sides since the rounded rod is pushing against a flat surface... Wouldn't it be better for the neck if the truss rod cavities were cut rounded?

[@jonahguitarguy]

I've been building guitars for over 20 years. I started thinking about this very thing several years ago. I now use a ball end cutter so the bottom of the route matches the rod. I think the rod is tight enough in a square channel that it is not causing twists. Twists are more up to poorly dried wood or grain orientation. That's a long discussion in itself. My reasoning is there's no point in leaving a void where the square covers occur. Also a square angle is more likely to crack than a radius. I have a couple videos that talk about this idea on my channel. Coincidentally my brand is Jonah. Check it out.

[@JohnDoe-u3b]

Can you tell me what the dimensions are of the neck blank?

[@oscardarrell]

hello Sir, i am a kid who is really interested in guitar building, is that 8" bandsaw? it looks small, well, i dont hv any bandsaw or jigsaw, i want to cut body and neck using router, is it possible? and is it safe? thank you.

[@michaelwallace1189]

Can you explain more about how the neck wasn't square with the laminates? I'm practicing with cheap and reclaimed wood and would like to know more about how you get the neck blank square.

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Michael, Oh... this is very hard to explain without pictures, but I'll give it a try and/or make a video about this one of these days. Usually when you square up a piece of timber you start by getting one side as flat and straight as you can without referencing any of the other sides. The next step would be to turn the piece a quarter turn to one of the adjacent sides and plane this face straight using a square to reference to the previous planed side. And you keep doing this until all sides are nice and straight and square to one and other. With a multi-laminated neck you have to take the laminated pieces into account when plaining the first face of the neck blank. You want that face to be square to, or parallel to, the striping in the laminate. For my necks I have to take the center line of the center Maple stripe into account when planing the top/front of the neck so the center line at the top/front will be the same as the center line at the back. I hope this made any sense. I don't know how to explain this without showing what I mean.

[@madeinyorkshire2203]

You have inspired me to try to build a guitar. Do you do it full time or around other work? Keep up the great work; fantastic channel!

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Made in Yorkshire, I'dd say go for it and give it a try. It's good to hear to have inspired you to build your guitar. I do Unquendor Guitars and this KZbin channel next to a 40+ hours full time job as an engineer and CAD application administrator. And thank you for the compliment.

[@MattsGAP]

Great to see you're making another guitar, I binge watched your last series over 2 days... I'm planning to make a strat in the new year. It's going to be my first attempt and I'm buying the tools I need as I go. My first purchase is going to a no.4 hand plane what other hand tools do you recommend?

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Guitars Amps & Pedals. Great to read you enjoyed the last series and hopefully got some useful information from it. What tools do I recommend... Of course a set of good steel rulers and measuring tools like the Incra protector. Is a router considered a hand tool? But you will definitely need one. At least 2 good chisels. A small 1/4” (6mm) one and a 1”(25mm) one. I can recommend the ones from Narex they’re good value for money and they have some nice sets. For carving I can recommend at least a half round rasp and file. Could also be Narex. Or take it a step further with Iwasaki carvers files. Essential tools you can’t do without are the tools needed for the frets. At least 1 leveling beam. A regular and a notched straight edge. Fret end dressing file and crowning file. Other recommendations I can make are a set of real good screwdrivers to only use on guitar hardware and an assortment of scalpels. The thing with tools is. You don’t need many to get the job done but you never seem to have enough. Buying them as you go seems the best way to start collecting. It also gives you a better understanding on what tool could help you do a job easier and what you do and don’t like in a tool. As a final tip. Buy the best tool you can. I found out the expensive way that with tools you get what you pay for (within reason). Good luck and have fun with your project.

[@MattsGAP]

Thanks, I'll look into the tools you've mentioned. I have a fair amount of setup tools already so that's ok. I'll be joining my own blanks so I'm going to get the measuring tools and clamps first I think . Thanks again I look forward to your next installment

[@UnquendorGuitars]

You’re welcome. I’m glad I could help.

[@DJ_Guitars]

Hi Daniel, can you tell me if you buy these mech blanks pre laminated, if so where are they from please? Loving your work! All the best, Gareth

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi GD Woodworks, I have my neck blanks custom made for me by my Dutch wood supplier. Unfortunately he doesn't have a web shop and doesn't do much international trade.

[@wbaglivio]

Great video! Why such a thick blank though? It looks thick enough to make two necks out of, or are you going to do an angled headstock one piece with the neck?

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hey wbaglivio, Thank you very much I'm glad you liked my video. Yes, it is going to be an angled headstock from a single piece and I like the heel of my necks to be as thick as possible so it has a bit more mass to it and can easily be blended with the body.

[@wbaglivio]

@@UnquendorGuitars That makes sense, thank you for the reply! Please keep making videos, they are very informative and have helped me a great deal.

[@GloriousDutchPancakes]

Wat voor gereedschap raad je aan om een neck met scarf joint uit te zagen als je geen bandsaw hebt en er ook geen ruimte voor hebt

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Mark, Om eerlijk te zijn kan ik niets anders echt aanraden dan een lintzaag. Dat is hét stuk gereedschap wat voor dit soort werk is uitgevonden. Naast een lintzaag, als je daar echt geen mogelijkheid toe hebt, zou je kunnen kijken naar een hele goede decoupeerzaag, maar dan echt een hele goede. Festool heeft schijnbaar een nieuw type wat evt. geschikt zou zijn om ook 'dikker' hout te zagen zonder dat het zaagblad 'buigt' in de bochten. Mocht je handgereedschap willen gebruiken zou je de rechte zijkanten met een goede handzaag kunnen zagen en de headstock met een figuurzaag. Zoals met alle gereedschappen is het eindresultaat natuurlijk helemaal afhankelijk met welk gereedschap je het best overweg kan, en oefen eerst op afvalstukken totdat je de slag te pakken hebt. Er zijn diverse redelijk goede 'tafelmodellen' lintzagen te verkrijgen bijv van Record Power. www.baptist.nl/houtbewerkers/zagen/lintzaagmachines-en-lintzagen/record-bs250-lintzaagmachine-1 Deze machines kan je na gebruik weer opbergen zodat ze geen ruimte in nemen op bijv. je werkbank. Ik ben van mening dat een lintzaag nagenoeg onmisbaar is voor het maken van gitaren.

[@eeroniemela8137]

Cool mug :) greetings from Finland. Great channel, you deserve a lot more subscribers! By the way, has anyone commented you look a lot like Jens Larsen?

[@UnquendorGuitars]

Hi Eero, Thanks. I hope the subscribers will come eventually. I had to look up Jens and there is indeed a resemblance.

[@kasamkakekaho3830]

how the thickness the neck blank?

[@UnquendorGuitars]

the neck blank is approx. 50mm thick.

[@kasamkakekaho3830]

@@UnquendorGuitars thanks for information

[@mrfrontranger7911]

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[@OMEGAKEV]

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[@UriahBennett]

So this guy’s either good friends with or really hates Ben Crowe? Because it seems like he’s really taking the piss out of Crimson’s vids. :)