Traditionally the neck for a guitar like this would have been made from 1 piece of wood, but I don't have the capability to deal with wood that thick since I have no bandsaw, so I decided to go with a scarf joint. I figured out the angle and cut it with a backsaw. The surfaces were cleaned up with a block plane, and then I glued the piece I cut to the rest of the neck blank. For the heel of the neck, I glued together a couple pieces of mahogany to created a stacked heel. The final pic shows the rough neck blank along with the east Indian rosewood fingerboard blank I'll be using.
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