Is this a good deal?

[Dave Bagwill]

Ok, back to the 'is this a good deal?' thing.

On the link at the end, as you scroll down, you will see quarter-sawn, rift-sawn, flat sawn neck blanks.

If I understand correctly, the flat-sawn hard maple blank, at 15/16 x 4 x30 , at $15.00, is about .83 board feet, so approximately $17/bd ft.

This being flat-sawn, however, means that I would need 3 of them to make a quartered 'billet' from which I could bandsaw two necks. So $45 for two necks, which ain't bad if you don't want to glue.

But the quarter-sawn are the same price, m/l. But for a 4" deep stack, I would need 4 pcs.

Is that reasoning even close to being close? :-)

And what about that rift-sawn?

http://www.bellforestproducts.com/guita ... fgodEH8ALA

[Daniel P]

Dave, did you ever resolve this questions as to whether (2) 12-Fret necks would fit on a 24" billet?

I'm about to order some neck billets - my used Simpson neck jig just arrived, and I can barely wait to try it out.

I don't yet have a neck template outline - need to make or find one. Any thoughts?

[Dave Bagwill]

I have NOT - yet - done this. Probably it's best to listen to the doubting voices on this thread, who have made a bunch of necks.
I blew up a 12 fret neck template outline in Michael Collin's book, to scale, and laid it on a 24" piece of ply, and it looks to me like it works - but actually doing it is the big test of course.

This guy gives plans that you can download and have blown up to scale. This is for the 12 fret classical neck profile, you'd have to carefully look to make sure the scale length is what you want, otherwise you may have to make some adjustments. But the profile itself should be useful.
http://liutaiomottola.com/instruments/C ... Cincia.pdf