Thread: Qld Walnut Thru-neck

I like the look of that one oz tradie. How much lighter do the cavities make it?

Hopefully light enough
If not, I'll chamber some more.

This one's got more of a Strat shape than the Raging Fires build, which has predominantly a Les Paul rounded bottom. New shape, meant a whole
set of templates to be made too.


cheers, Stu

Cheers, Stu

Looks good Stu. Is the neck on an angle?. How does the cap fit on?.

Originally Posted by Deano

Looks good Stu. Is the neck on an angle?. How does the cap fit on?.

Ta for that, Deano and Sundancewfs.
Yep. It's angled to accommodate a T.O.M. bridge set-up.
The Top cap gets cut around the raised neck, where in this case
the carve top cap will be level with the underside of fretboard.


And Here's the 15mm Tas. Oak Carve top .



Cheers, Stu

Me Likes.

Looking great, looking forward to more updates!

very nice looking, i do like the shape, what wood will the fretboard be? like the brown timber, very nice.

Today's progress. Declamp and plane front and back flat.
Cut and router the body shape
Taper the neck
Router the controls cavity.
And a general sand all over.

BlackLabb, I'm using another bound striped ebony f/board




Cheers , Stu

looks nice, do you have any plans to get the top to fit around the piece of neck easily, (such as having a neck template to make a negative of) or are you just going to spend alot of time getting it perfect? i like the idea of the look, but i try to avoid annoying parts like that in my design. not that i dont think you can do it, im sure you can do it very well, but it may take a bit of time.

but then again, im not much of a woodworker, and you seem to be.

Sometimes it pays to have two trades under the belt and 20+ yrs on the tools.

That's one of the easier points to tackle. In fact it's no harder than trying to get a well fitting, gap-free neck joint.
Alot of the time , the things that seem fiddly or time-consuming usually give the most satisfaction. If it's worth doing, it's worth getting it done right. That is how I look at things.

You'll hopefullly see the cap on later in the week.

cheers, Stu

Just glued the bookmatched Tas. Oak top



cheers, Stu

Nice looking top you have there!

Also, how have you found the Queensland Walnut like to carve and machine?

Stu, you have far to much nice timber. Have you considered donating some to the weekly forum competition (or better still, you could just give me some )

I just bought some QLD Walnut veneer this weekend, and some nice mildy quilted TAS Metryl. I think I'll use some of it to cap off an old Ibanez RG340 that I stripped years ago and never resprayed. Originally I was going to get my girlfriend to paint a design onto it (she is an amazing artist), but that never happened and I have the veneer now, so...

At the moment, I would have to say the QLD walnut is one of my fav looking timbers, so needless to say, that thru neck makes me just mildy jelous. This is one I will be keeping an eye on to see it finished.

Originally Posted by RGM

Nice looking top you have there!

Also, how have you found the Queensland Walnut like to carve and machine?

The slightly figured stuff tends to show some evidence of tearout when run through a planer/thicknesser. It's quite dense and in all honesty,
When chiselwork, planing or scraping, it destroys the cutting edges on all tools quicker than any timber I've used.

But having said that, its still a very interesting timber to use and I'm really
looking forward to having this one finished so I can gauge where it's
tonal properties lie.

As for the top...................we'll she got cut in half , re-jointed and reglued today after a great join on the bookmatch but a not flat result along the board. too much cupping, probably aided by the method of clamping the first time around.
Anyway it's all re-done and looking the goods so far.


Hammered, how about some pics of your veneer booty.
Always interested in people veneering guitars.

You're welcome to have a sticky-beak at the neck thru in person.
All you have to do is make the time and drop on by.

cheers, Stu

That Tassy oak looks really yellow/brown. I've never seen it that colour before. have you shellac-ed it or something?