Question - Where on a stringed instrument would you find a scarf?
Answer - On the neck of course.
Scarf....neck. Neck....scarf! Oh, please yerselves!
Time to start on the neck blanks. Mill that piece of 1/4 sawn mahogany into four blanks.
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Band sawn.
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Drum sanded.
From the drawings the head angle from the neck is 13 degrees.
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Two blanks marked out for two instruments.
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Off to the bandsaw and DST stick a square scrap to the side to hold it vertical and to ease its straight passage through the saw at such an angle.
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I was pleased with that. Less planing to do.
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Overdid it a little on the blade lube!
Not bad.
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More DST and onto the vice to true up the mating faces. Cover with chalk and plane till the chalk is gone, keeping the 90 degree pencil marks alive.
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Squared up nicely.
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And to confirm it's 13 degrees from the neck....
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Last job while they're still stuck together is to reduce the thickness of the head to 11mm. On the Bandsaw again.
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Enough for today. I offered them to the plan and they fit.
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I've got to cut the necks to length and the offcuts become the laminations for the heel and tenon. But that's for tomorrow.