With my practice neck complete and a new neck blank on order I moved on to jointing the back plates together.
How hard can it be to create 2 straight edges and glue two piece of wood together? If you are ME then its extremely difficult. (hahaha).
I started by using the "shooting" method outlined in the Cumpiano & Natelson book. I was able to get to a point when it would appear that I had a straight edge, but upon candling the joint was dissappointed to see gaps all along the seam.
Next, I tried a simplier approach, sanding, fool proof. (according to the DVD it is). Just take a straight edged piece of wood, attach sandpaper across its length and slide the sandpaper across the edges. This failed too!! It definitely gave better results than the "shooting" method but still not perfect - a few smallish gaps.
I spent a few hours trying both methods with no improvement in the resulting joint. With frustration levels very high at this point especially after what happened last week with the neck it was time to drive home and plan the next angle of attack...
(Im starting to thinking about throwing the in towel and selling all the guitar building stuff on ebay and just stick to playing)
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