After I cut the scarf joint, I had to plane down the cut to get it smooth and flat for gluing it to the other part of the neck.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Guitar build, scarf joint
Well, I began building the classical guitar that I have neglected to start for almost a year now (due in part to law school, it gets in the way of everything...). I decided to start blogging some of my progress, but only after I made the scarf joint cut on the neck blank. I will try and do a better job of taking pictures as I go along.
After I cut the scarf joint, I had to plane down the cut to get it smooth and flat for gluing it to the other part of the neck.
Here you can see the progress with planing. I don't remember the saying exactly, but they say a craftsman is only as good as his tools. A good plane is both sharp and honed, and having little experience doing either, I spent some time with The Handplane Book by Garrett Hack. Very helpful book for the amateur (me), and I got my Stanley 220 plane working much better, but still have room for improvement.
This is the joint held together.
And here it is before I clamped it up.
Finally, I got it clamped and went in to make dinner. All for now!
After I cut the scarf joint, I had to plane down the cut to get it smooth and flat for gluing it to the other part of the neck.
