Making Laminated Guitar Necks

Many guitars are laminate wood in their entire body construction.

Making laminated guitar necks. 7975 cameron drive bldg. This can be as simple or elaborate as you like. The first step in making a laminated guitar neck is making the blank. This can be very important in wider necks on guitars with seven or more strings and basses with five or more strings.

The peghead is laminated to the neck using a scarf joint referred to as a spanish luthier s joint. In an effort to offer customers other more affordable options many builders also make guitars featuring laminate back and sides. If you are a beginner or you have not done much wood lamination before go for a simple design done well. T he top of your guitar the soundboard is less than inch thick and it s either a solid piece or a layered laminate top.

A keen eye can spot these tiny layers in the top if you look at the soundhole opening. Before you can glue up your neck you re going to need to flatten the large faces on your lamination. Extend the mark that shows the end of the neck the body join mark or if your neck will have a tenon the end of the tenon around to the underside of the neck. Look for a change in grain direction at the edges of the soundhole.

1600 windsor california 95492 toll free. This will weaken the neck making it susceptible to neck breaks or the truss rod punching. Luthiers mercantile international inc. Make another mark approximately 1 2 further from the headstock end than this one and cut the neck off at this mark.

A good trick for making a laminated guitar neck is to glue up your pieces just a little bit taller than you actually need the final blank to be. Laminate back and sides.