Stewmac Binding Routing Guide Source: Guitar Plans Headstock Detailing – Binding Installation: It doesn’t make much difference if you installing plastic or wood binding on your guitar peghead, the procedures outlined within this article will apply equally to each type of binding that you decide to use. If you haven’t prepared you purfling and binding [...]

Headstock Detailing – Plastic Binding Preparation Source: Guitar Building Articles – The Guitar Neck Preparing Acoustic Headpiece – Plastic Binding Required Tools and Materials: Headpiece Binding Jig Duco Cement for Plastic Bindings Push Pins or 1″ Finishing Nails Paint Stripper Heating Gun Plastic Purflings and Bindings Acoustic Guitar Headpiece – Preparing the Binding: The first [...]

Headstock Detailing – Wood Binding Preparation Source: Guitar Building Articles – The Guitar Neck Preparing Acoustic Headpiece – Wood Binding Required Tools and Materials: Headpiece Binding Jig Titebond III for Wood Bindings Push Pins or 1″ Finishing Nails Soldering Iron for Bending Wood Purflings and Bindings Acoustic Guitar Headpiece – Preparing the Binding: Although many [...]

Bolt-on Acoustic Guitar Neck: We describe the method in which you can build a removable neck for your handmade Acoustic Guitar. We offer free PDF download plans and a description of how to do it.

Classical Guitar Head Block Shelf Source: Guitar Building Articles – The Guitar Neck Tools & Materials Required: Laminate Router: Carbide Router Bit Vernier Calipers Guitar Plans Head Block Shelf for Classical Guitar This may seem like a trivial subject to cover, but come to think about it, one one of my first guitars, I didn’t [...]

This article on Shaping the Heel of the Classical Guitar, offers you a couple of different methods to easily cut out the heel, foot and side channels for this difficult neck application. Download free PDF diagrams at our Plan Shop too, to make this even easier.

The dovetail neck joint is the joint of choice with most of the larger factory guitar makers. Most handmade guitars utilize the mortise and tenon joint. If you want to use the dovetail, you should get these useful templates.

The mortise and tenon joint used as a joint where the guitar neck joins the body of an acoustic guitar is growing in popularity. When used in conjunction with our bolt-on neck option, it give you the ultimate in flexibility and ease of working on both the guitar body and the neck. Great care must be taken in the construction of this joint and this article covers this very thoroughly.

Rough Cutting the Guitar Neck Source: Guitar Building Articles – The Guitar Neck Tools and Materials Required: Band Saw Table Saw & Miter Gauge Japanese Pull Saw Coping Saw Rough-cut The Neck – Acoustic Guitar: Tip: This step should be completed after you have cut your neck joint, whether that is a mortise and tendon [...]

Tools and Materials Required: Heel Restraint Jig Titebond III Glue Waxed Paper (4) Bessey or Large C Clamps Chop Saw or Table Saw Stationary Belt Sander or Drum Sander Amazon.com Widgets The Acoustic Guitar Heel: The Acoustic Guitar Heel consists of several stacked blocks of neck blank wood, glued up with specific grain orientation and [...]