Full build walkthrough
The one-piece
guitar build.
Two hours on a build with no neck joint at all. Harder to get right, unforgiving of mistakes, and there is nothing quite like the result.
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What this covers
Neck and body cut from one blank, so there is no neck joint to get wrong — and no neck joint to rescue you if something else goes wrong.
- Selecting and preparing a blank large and stable enough
- Laying out neck and body together
- Working around the fact that nothing can be dry-fitted or replaced
- The full build, start to finish
No second chances. On a bolt-on you can remake a neck that goes wrong. Here a mistake at the eleventh hour means starting again with the whole blank. Wood selection and layout matter more than on any other build.
Written companion in progress.
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