Aug 31 - Sept 2 2015 - More of the neck

Here are two more pictures of the neck from the previous post after all of the finish spraying was done.

 I shaved the neck heel so that the neck would attach to the body at the proper angle (what we normally call doing a "neck reset"), got everything mated up nicely, and glued the neck back on. Unfortunately, at that point I realized I had made a beginner mistake. While I had the neck off (since the very beginning of rebuilding this instrument) I never once checked to make sure that the truss rod worked properly. As soon as I started trying to turn the adjuster nut, it sheared right off of the rod.

That's how, in less than 3 hours, I glued a neck onto a guitar and ended up taking it right back off.

holes drilled to steam the neck off... again... 

neck with broken truss rod, new truss rod, and removed fingerboard 

fingerboard being glued back onto the neck after truss rod replacement

During all of that glue-up time, Scott had me start disassembling my next guitar to rebuild. This one is still a Harmony, but it's a classical guitar instead of the normal steel-string guitars that we do. It'll be my first classical rebuild. It's actually built more similarly to a steel-string guitar than a traditional classical guitar, but I'll at least get to build a classical bridge and install classical style bracing.