Acoustic Guitar Construction

I glued up the scarf joint for the headstock last night, then after an hour dry time, I had to thickness the headstock from 1 inch down to 18mm. I hand planed down from the face, which moved the spot where the nut will go toward the heel, and I need to bring it back, so I hand planed the neck shaft top surface, tapering so the heel end remained at 1 inch, but brought the angled intersection back where it needed to be. I made lots of shavings. Next is to glue on the headstock veneers.

Good looking joint. What role does the box of clementines play?

Ha ha, I get hungry while I work, so I keep them handy

That looks real pro, Mr. California.
How long took the blade to cut though that whole board?
(I am still at doubt to get me a better bandsaw and resaw myself)
Herman

Herman, this maple cut like butter, and I pushed through to fast really. Each cut only took 2 or 3 minutes, probably twice as fast a feed as I should have done. It is nice having the bandsaw for sure.
Tell Anja you want one. :)

I spent a few minutes last night making an indian rosewood veneer to go under the curly koa headplate. I took some 1/8" scrap pieces from another guitar, glued a center seam and hand planed the piece down to about 1mm thick, but when I placed it on the headstock under the koa, I didn't like how it looked, so I used a thin maple veneer under the koa instead. I like to pre-angle the leading edge of the headplate that the nut will rest against on the disc sander before I glue it on, so I did that and glued the sandwich of maple and koa to the headstock. I used a caul faced with packaging tape, clamped in place right at the line where the edge of the headplate should be then glue the veneers on up against that caul. This works really well as long as you let the glue start to grab before you screw the clamps down too much so the veneers don't slide. I always had trouble trying to cut that nut side edge of the headplate nice and straight and square with a hand saw, so this method works better for me.

Glued up the headstock veneers, cleaned up the sides, and then glued up the stacked heel