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Finally the neck for the guitar arrived, nearly 2 months after the expected time.
After a long period off wait my expectations where not very good and the neck it self did not surpass my expectations.
After a long period off wait my expectations where not very good and the neck it self did not surpass my expectations.
The fretboard arrived bone dry, the color it had was very odd. Like the post on the Reviews section the nut was glued in by the finish, i managed to removed it. I had to clean the nut slot and the end off the fretboard and sand it fore a better fit.
This is how the nut sited on the slot, the bottom and face that rest against the fretboard had finish product in it causing it to be like this.
The fretboard does not show amazing work, that's glue that was not clean and some off this marks could have used some grain filer.... i managed to clean a lot with some DW-40. Then putted 2 coats of Lemon oil.
Looks better some glue was removed, but in some places the glue is inside marks left in the fretboard, this marks are not felted by the fingers but was ding was, so i had to sand that spot.
This neck has a skunk strike witch is supposed to give more strength to the neck but i have my doubts...
The skunk stripe is smaller than the routed channel.
Talking about routing, routing end grain can be problematic, some file was used here.
Talking about routing, routing end grain can be problematic, some file was used here.
After a small leveling off the frets was time to fit the neck to the body.
The neck did not have drilled holes for neck screws so i placed the neck in the neck pocket and placed the neck plate and screws and tighten the screws till they marked the place for the holes, then drilled holes with a smaller drill than then screws for the neck.
Left some marks in neck heal because off sanding off the area off the drilled holes.
The wiring is still not done, i need to check the diagram since i did not spot one part off it, the wiring is monster.