How We Shape Guitar Necks
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In this video I walk y'all through the steps we use here at the shop to shape guitar necks. When you come to one of our workshops that includes neck shaping this is the way you will do it too.
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Good Video Matt, Thanks, can tell your an old time carpenter - can't draw a line unless your tongue is sticking out!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Very true!
Great vid!
This is great info Matt! Thanks!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful Clint
"If you're so smart - start your own KZread channel! That's what I did." 🤣🤣🤣 I couldn't go to your shop and learn much about making necks. I already make them like that!! I other words you guys already know what you're doing so I couldn't really help you much. Although I wouldn't have used 60 grit - it's way too aggressive for simple shaping. 80 grit is enough to go from a rasp file to a fairly smooth finish. Then on to what ever you use afterwards. I use 80 grit then 100 grit, 220, 320, 400 grit to make it ultra smooth. Great job on that neck! I wish I had router big enough for a Roman Ogee bit but I don't so I sand the shape with an orbital sander by hand.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Well, start your own KZread channel
Excellent detail Matt! I am saving this one for a re-watch when I carve my next neck.
Most enjoyable to watch and learn from this video. Thanks again!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great information
This video is great. It brings back the awesome memories of my time at build workshop.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is the good stuff. The beer drinking, socializing ones just don’t interest me, but I’m a 63 year old guitar player, repairman and custom amp builder, who really appreciates your knowledge and willingness to pass it on! “Jesus and Leo Fender” one and the same as far as I’m concerned!
@davedupuis2069
2 жыл бұрын
Same
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
I haven't changed the content... just added more
Excellent vid Matt, I remember watching one of your old vids where you were shaping the neck but this vid had way more info regarding the volute and other carving etc
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Great to hear!
can't wait !!!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
It's going to be a blast Doc
Man that's fast!! Can't wait to get to a class.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
We'll be here man
That was neck-tacular!! Good stuff!! You should make this manditory viewing b4 making a neck at the workshop.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
That is exactly why we made this video
Great informative vid, easy to follow - oh and more leftie guitars!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Comin' at ya Stan
Great video Matt. Especially with next weeks class coming up.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Most definitely! I want to start making some videos for guys to watch before classes
@rocker6957
2 жыл бұрын
@@TexasToastGuitarsI think that would be very beneficial.
i love this channel for learning how to manufacture guitars, you guys by far show the quickest way to get the job done! thanks
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks my friend
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks my friend
Tried the 7/8 round over with a 1/8 wedge at the nut end. Worked great. Using a cheap slow speed bench top drill press was a challenge. It wanted to grab and chip out. All and all, it was a success. So glad I found your channel. Your videos are full of information and technics that I have put to use. Great stuff.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help out
@nsjguitarsakascotsman6989
2 жыл бұрын
Are you saying you used the router bit with a drill press?
@jefflitchfield4950
2 жыл бұрын
@@nsjguitarsakascotsman6989 i don't know if he's saying that, but I have done that myself many many times.
@nsjguitarsakascotsman6989
2 жыл бұрын
@@jefflitchfield4950 cool, its just I recently got myself a proper drill press and am interested in alternative uses apart from drilling.
@jefflitchfield4950
2 жыл бұрын
@@nsjguitarsakascotsman6989 high-speed and slow feed. I have used the drill press to do binding routes on guitars with carb tops many times. Make sure your bits are sharp and your fingers are out of the way as usual.
Having beer with friends and making guitars, what can be cooler than that?
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
I like your style
Great info Matt. This information is worth every penny it cost me. Oh yeah nothing yet... but soon. certainly appreciate you sharing all the knowledge. You Rock! \m/
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
You know, when you say a free video was worth every penny... It colors my opinion of anything you say after that.
@brad-guitar-miller813
2 жыл бұрын
@@TexasToastGuitars only because sometime next year you will be getting my money for a class.
I haven’t heard the phrase “Singapore Sling” since the mid-80s-awesome!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
They're pretty good
Also, wet a rag and run it along the back of the neck to raise the grain. Then wait until it dries and then sand it down. That way you end up with a smooth neck profile. You do the same with the guitar body before painting.
Great video, fantastic info! One question I have is what do you do about the fretboard radius prior to fretting and profiling with the pin router? Is that a radiused caul it is clamped to?
Nice🤘🏻🤘🏻
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
🤙
10:08 is my favorite part and my favorite Matt Flaherty saying WWJC&LFD? HaHa. I do like my 12th fret thickness closer to .94" or .97" but .91" is probably conducive for a faster playing neck so... 👍Matt!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Grant
Thanks Matt. Do you ever do headstock veneers? It might be cool to see a video about that.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
I actually stopped doing headstock veneers
Love the deadhead sander. Matt. Is the working area a couple of inches shorter that the neck shaft?? Wonder if I could make one, for my old Shopsmith?
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Go for it!
I was just wondering the other day if you guys still had the old man machine kicking around.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
You were wondering that? Let me tell you... you don't get rid of The Old Man Machine
I need the come back for the "touch up the first ever neck you shaped" class :)
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Lets do it
So much better than watching a CNC cut one.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Well, I think so
KZread sent me a suggested video from some guys from Florida named "Driftwood Guitars'. I watched some of their videos and they're pretty cool but the funny thing was their names. Matt and Chris.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
I have heard that
Will you be at the guitar/luthier show on 6/29 in Parker?
@TexasToastGuitars
28 күн бұрын
Well... I had not planned on it but didn't know there was one.
@Selmer1430P
28 күн бұрын
@@TexasToastGuitars my bad I was reading it off an old show magazine. 5yrs. ago🤣
Matt, did you drill the tuner holes prior the cutting the headstock angle? Or did you drill them at an angle after? Thanks!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
We drill them at an angle
Ive asked before.. just in case you are reading the comments. Any chance someone coming to one of your courses could build a headless guitar? I've gone exclusively headless for various reasons but I am interested in coming to a course in the US (have thought about the crimson course where I could definitely build a headless but going overseas is a lot more difficult) and I do have some connections (family and work) in some places around boulder which would make a trip there for a week pretty do able.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
New for 2022, we no longer supply all the hardware for the workshops so if you wanted to do a headless instrument that would be cool
Hey Matt, would you guys be willing to make me a set of perloid block inlays for a p bass? I can't find them anywhere and I know you guys are dabbling in inlay work these days
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
yes
@davedupuis2069
2 жыл бұрын
@@TexasToastGuitars sweet. How do we proceed?
Man Glitter!!!!
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
What do you call it
@ChrisHendrix117
2 жыл бұрын
Well, from now on, it’s Man Glitter!!!
Any concerns about that little knot close to the neck to head transition?
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Do you have any concerns about it?
@jeffreyeagen4896
2 жыл бұрын
@@TexasToastGuitars just wondering
I just pushed “go” on the ol’ CNC machine and my neck is done before blood sport is over.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
neat
What size is the round over bit?
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
7/8"
Never mind, Got it 7/8
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
cool man
How many hours do you pot into each neck?
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
I don't smoke pot
Where is Texas Toast located?
@chillpillology
2 жыл бұрын
canada
Radius of the round over bit?
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know
@2old4u
2 жыл бұрын
@@TexasToastGuitars First round over bit I bought was 7/8 diameter and it was wrong size. I needed to buy a 7/8 radius bit. Found out the hard way.
@jwardcomo
2 жыл бұрын
@@2old4u I was guessing about 1 1/2"?
You look so young without the beard
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
I am
Left handed??
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
yes
Good stuff here. You should be a trend setter and stop calling it a volute.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
Does making up new words for something old makes you a trend setter
Ain’t no LEATHER neck, y’all!
60 Grit Paper is like 2 bricks on a piece of paper.
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
well... 60
If you're so smart make your own KZread channel. Lol
@TexasToastGuitars
2 жыл бұрын
It's true man, you will see a bunch of people telling me all the ways they think I should do something... That tag line is for them