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Splices and Neck Laminates

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PeleSoccer33

Aug 12, 2006
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#1
Where do all of you buy these? I don't have a lumberyard anywhere near me so thats not an option. :crying:
Also, while looking on the internet, every site I found has a minimum order of one board foot. That's way more than I need. Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
#2
I go in the forest with a chainsaw.... but not everyone should do that. LOL. There usually is a lumberyard with decent exotic wood in every big city. One board foot is more than enough? you need at least 2 inches wide to do a lam, so that is... what, 5 feet to get a board foot? (4 feet by 3 inches is a b/f) If youre doin a NeckThrough, you need 4 feet so thats decent.... isnt it? if you are doing a 3 piece neck, you need at least 3 board feet, for NT that is.
 
#3
Sorry maybe you didn't understand my question. If you are building a three piece neck maple/purpleheart/maple for example, the purpleheart section will be under a boardfoot on a set or bolt on neck. Or maybe, I read the information on the sites wrong and your entire order must be at least one board foot.
 
#4
I did understand, one board foot of Purpleheart will be 4 feet by 3 inches by 7/8 thick. you take off the extra inch off unless you want a 20 degree angle on the peghead or something like that and take off whatever you need to take off to get to a quarterinch. For a bolt on neck you will need something like one board foot for both outer parts of the neck in maple... If you dont have a decent lumberyard in your area, you have no other choice but to order at least one board foot or drive somewhere far. I think Todd has Neck Lams all ready to glue up on his website, but they are pricey. Ive got a Neck here with Maple, Purple, and Ipe, 7 pieces, cost me 19$, another 7 piece with Maple and Gombeira, cost me 11$. calculate your stuff dude, one board foot is fairly small, depending on the thickness you want. You might be better off asking one of us to get you some pieces at our local lumberyards and shipping them of to you. The one I deal with has 110 different kinds of wood. I got a 1/4" piece, 3" by 5' of Purpleheart for 2$ !!! enough to do two Fretboards!! do the math, that is 1$ for a fretboard !
 
#6
I suggest you try a middleman

Give this ebay seller

http://stores.ebay.com/SoundAt11

a quick message

he does various lams/necks/body/FB woods and should beable to help you with what your looking for but as T2W says your going to be paying for the extra steps as anyone who deals/processes wood for you like this as they will charge for there time/machining if your only doing a one off build this can save you money as you wont have to layout for the surfacing tools

hope that helps some
 
#7
Looks like a good idea for the how-to sections. I hard a hard time following the whole b/f thing. Probably because I never built one!

So for an average neck thru at 34" scale of maple/purpleheart/maple I would need 1bf of each? That would be only 2 5/8 wide. So I really need 2 more pieces of maple so that the end of the fretboard is 3+ ?

:confused:
 
#8
bassksun said:
Looks like a good idea for the how-to sections. I hard a hard time following the whole b/f thing. Probably because I never built one!

So for an average neck thru at 34" scale of maple/purpleheart/maple I would need 1bf of each? That would be only 2 5/8 wide. So I really need 2 more pieces of maple so that the end of the fretboard is 3+ ?

:confused:
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Exactly, 3 inches unless you do a scarf joint, but you have plenty if you use 2inch and you do 7" long peghead with a 12deg angle (10 to 15 is common practice) and also depending on the thickness you need, you can always get your piece cut up in two (on a Baker), blade takes up 1/8 so you would have 2 pieces 7/16 thick. However, getting a cut on a Baker is expensive like hell.
But I dont get it... There has to be at least some Maple at Home Depot... I know these are not the greatest places to get wood because of the condition they are often in, but if that is all there is around, and there MUST be a Home Depot around your place... right?
Here guys, check this out:
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as well as

http://www.integritywoodproducts.com/bfchart.pdf

the second page on the second link is all you need, keep in mind that wood in lumberyards is calculated in quarters, so 4/4 is an inch, 5/4 is an inch and a quarter, and so on. Sometimes you can find wood in 2/4 or even 1/4 but it can be rare. with this chart you can calculate your designs and all the pieces you need for a neck/body and show up at your local lumberyard and ask for 1.47356 b/f of Bubinga or 3.568782 b/f of Hard Maple. hhahhahahha a , wish you luck fellow luthiers ! Peace.
 
#9
they way I have done it in the past is either
3/4"-5/4" thick for scarfed basses
at 36" for BO
39" for SN
or 42-48 for NT

and 7/4 to 8/4 for carved headstock basses .
some builders use 1/2" and glue a heel to the body joint end to make up that 1/4" for thickness and it will look like a Set Neck but be a bolt on.


choose you fingerboard width or add an inch to that
depending if you want to glue on "ears"
or it you want to carve it all out.
doing "ears" is a much more efficient way especially with a scarf joint!
this adds extra stability to the 13-15 degree joint.

many lumberyards will charge an extra bd/ft's worth if you dont use a whole board.

and from the tip of the headstock piece to the sharp end of the scarf joint should be around 9"
which leaves plenty for whatever creative touch you want to add to the headstock for branding purpose (not burning branding but the trademark aspect of the term "brand")
 

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