| Please note that these tutorials are the product of several authors both from the Project Guitar web site and also off site links. While there are many ways to do each of the jobs described, your way of achieving the same results may very from what is described in each of these tutorials. The authors have tried to be as complete as possible but do not take responsibility for the outcome or end result in following their work. If you have questions about anything you read here please join us in the Project Guitar Forum where you will receive many different views and can formulate your own path to choose working on your own Project Guitar. |
Building Guitar Necks
| *denotes an off site tutorial which will open in a new window |
| Building a Neck: | Author Steve (ripl3y) |
| How to build a guitar neck from scratch printer friendly version | |
| Easy Angled Head Stock Neck: | Author Alex van der Linde |
| How to build a guitar neck (angled headstock) in 10 steps printer friendly version | |
| Fretting Simplified : | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to fret a guitar neck from scratch printer friendly version | |
| Single Action Truss Rod: | Author Brian Calvert |
| View of a single action truss rod with the fret board removed printer friendly version | |
| Neck Shims: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Understanding neck shims and the purpose behind them printer friendly version | |
| Full Neck Scallop: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Custom Richie Blackmore style full length neck scallop | |
| Scalloping frets 21-24: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Scalloping the upper frets better than a factory job printer friendly version | |
| Make a Fret Bender : | Author Brian Calvert |
| Custom make your own radius fret bender for under $5 | |
| Polishing Frets 1: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to polish frets using a rotary tool printer friendly version | |
| Polishing Frets 2 : | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to polish frets using three different common methods printer friendly version | |
| Repairing a cracked neck: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to repair a cracked neck joint at the head stock printer friendly version | |
| Repairing a warped neck: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to repair a warped guitar neck | |
| Fret board removal: | Author Kevan Geier |
| How to safely remove a fret board on a guitar neck printer friendly version | |
| Fret board attachment: | Author Kevan Geier |
| How to safely attach a fret board on a guitar neck printer friendly version | |
| Making a Custom Logo : | Author Bill Jehle |
| How to create your own custom logo and apply it to the headstock | |
| Painted Head Stock : | Author Brian Calvert |
| Paint Tips on finishing or refinishing a painted head stock printer friendly version | |
| Vintage Neck Refinish : | Author Dave K |
| How to create a vintage yellow look for your relic strat project neck | |
| Radius Sanding Blocks : | Author Anthony Setchell |
| How to create your own radius sanding blocks with a router and home made jig |
| Interactive
Forum Tutorial and Reference Guide |
| Each
of these Reference guide and Tutorials will open up to the perspective Project
Guitar Forum thread |
| Fretting mysteries : | Topic Starter GuitarMaestro |
| *denotes an off site tutorial which will open in a new window |
| Neck
Construction Tips : |
Web Site Stew Mac |
| Great introduction and insight into building any type of guitar neck | |
| Neck profile copying : | Web Site Stew Mac |
| Easy way to copy the profile shape of any factory neck | |
| Adjusting a Truss rod: | Author Gene Imbody |
| Step by step discussion and directions on adjusting a single action truss rod | |
| Truss Rod Replacement: | Author Steve Carmody |
| How to replace a broken single action truss rod in a Strat neck | |
| Refretting musical instruments: | Author Fret Not Guitar Repair |
| Photographic tutorial on refretting musical instument necks | |
| Making logos and decals : | Web site Stew Mac |
| Fast and easy way to make a professional looking logo or decal for your head stock | |
| Fret Buzz Locating Tool : | Author Dave Schramm |
| A tool to solve the mystery of finding the elusive fret buzz | |
| Making a neck template: | Author Mario Proulx |
| How to make a simple neck template step by step | |
| Fretting with Epoxy : | Author J Sevy |
| Fretting a bound neck using the expoxy method |