A neck for Andrew
A while back, got a call from a friend of mine. He was interested in building a guitar for himself, but wasn’t sure about making his own neck. He wondered if I’d be interested, and it turns out I was. 
Really interesting project. Andrew’s a fan of all things vintage and/or old-time-y , so he decided to enlarge an F-style mandolin into guitar form. Seen the headstocks on those things??! Really big relative to the body. The final design of the headstock ended up a bit over 9 inches long(!).
But! It’s turning out to be a cool project. Andrew chose a nice piece of Bolivian rosewood for the neck, and I scored a killer cocobolo fretboard for this neck. We’re also going to use a bit of the catalpa wood he cut the body out of for a headstock veneer to tie the piece together.
Got the fretboard radiused yesterday, and should have it polished today, along with two other necks I’m doing batch-style. Here’s some pics in the meantime. Have a great week!
Nice! What’s his body gonna look like?
Like a mandolin. Duh.
It’s going to be the same wood as the headstock overlay. It looks beautiful.I’ll con him out of a pic of the body to post up here as well. Tele bridge, Steinberger tuners…should be stinkin’ awesome!