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Fully agree on the shellac suitability, but let's get one thing straight, something being a natural product doesn't imply it's not harmful to your health. Tiger snake venom is a natural product, for...

As a first step you can try rubbing the neck down with 0000 steel wool - it can greatly improve the feel without needing to refinish. A maple neck is tricky because you need to strip the original...

Great shape, that!

What if you rout in a little way, use the metal plate for the neck bolts (might have to cut the screws a little or find shorter ones) and then shape a thin oak veneer, with a recessed strong magnet...

Looks like you're right - but usually you either need a plate or nice big ferrules to withstand the tension of a strung neck, right? A glue joint is spread out across a much larger area.
If the...

I'm not pretending to be an expert here, but won't your wooden neckplate split as soon as you tighten the screws? I thought they needed to be metal because it's able to spread the screw force across...

Hm, interesting idea - but how long would it take to be usably dry?

Thanks for previous help - just a silly question which reflects my total lack of experience. I need a bit of alder to fill some routs and re-rout the neck pocket on a bass body I'm adapting for a...

You need this thread, he shares a few diagrams:
51 P Bass Build looking for info - Telecaster Guitar Forum

Thanks - it's a "frequensator" design, looks cool, adds a few odd resonances behind the bridge, and as you can imagine the D string is fairly long - the wrapping runs out before it reaches the tuner!...

Dunno why but gold looks cheap to me - I stripped all the gold off my Sheraton hardware, very happy with the result:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/4036164093_c2eb495af1.jpg

(Of course, I...

Thanks for the pointers, I'll give you a call Bob.
Months to attach hardware?? You have no idea how impatient I am. At the moment the neck is still in the mail and I won't know how it all fits...

Hi all,
I've been enjoying the awesome build threads on this section of your site - thanks for sharing so much detail and information. I have a much more modest project which is going to involve...