making a guitar heel

[paul]

does anyone have pictures or ideas

about making the guitar heels?

[Mark Werner]

Glue it up... shape with rasps and files...

 

That's one way, anyway.  Just glue up sections of the same wood using a quality wood glue and when it's dry start shaping.  I use hand tools, but power sanding tools would be lots quicker.

Another method is to cut out the entire neck shape in one piece from a blank.  I've use glued-up laminates of maple and oak, then laid out the neck shape (side view) on same and cut the whole thing out with a scroll saw.

"Ears" for the tuning head are glued on later.

[Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates]

See my album here

https://picasaweb.google.com/gmac63/DavidWaits?authkey=Gv1sRgCLT-sY...

I use a set of sharp wood chisels to rough out the shape the heel, rasps and sandpaper to fine tune.

-WY

[paul]

are your heel and neck made from the same piece of wood?

what about glueing a piece in for the heel? any suggestions?

Wes "Moanin' Mule" Yates said:

See my album here

https://picasaweb.google.com/gmac63/DavidWaits?authkey=Gv1sRgCLT-sY...

I use a set of sharp wood chisels to rough out the shape the heel, rasps and sandpaper to fine tune.

-WY

[Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates]

Right. That's what I do. So I do a laminated neck where I take two pieces of 1x2 and glue them together, add on some extra for the heel and cut it lateral to shape. Like here

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/laminated-neck-test

-WY