The past couple of days have been spent finishing the neck.  Very tedious days making lots of dust. First, glued in the mother-of-pearl honu and, once set, polished it up. I'll be using a spoon [...]

Finally wrapped up the headstock "art".  Quite tricky to get the relief done right and the stew-mac router jig is almost a necessity.  It allows some very fine control.  Using ebony as headstock veneer is [...]

Today was all about headstocks.  I'm using peg tuners for the first time (all other uses I've used mini-tuners) and wanted a more elegant headstock design to reflect the smaller Concert and the tuners.  Came [...]

While it's probably overkill, I use a furniture bolt and brass threaded insert nut to create a solid neck/body connection. The tenon is about 1/2" wide while the insert needs a 3/8" hole.  Nice tight [...]

The day I've been waiting for has finally arrived.  I made a neck mortise and tenon jig awhile back that should, in theory, create a perfectly aligned joint while also compensating for any body front/top errors (e.g., [...]

It's Saturday so it's YAJ (yet another jig) day!  My back glue up jigs are too large for this little concert so I quickly made a nice jig.  It's funny how many jigs you need [...]