Have I Found the Best Way to Build a Neck Through Guitar? | CNC Woodworking

my heart definitely stopped the moment I saw that spindle travel over the fret board too! Well done Mike!

Awesome. Someday I want a CNC machine.

Holy heck, this is great! I'm a hobbyist guitar maker who's looking to get more into this, and you video was both inspiring and very informative. Thanks!

I never knew making an guitar required so many steps and so much time !! But it is coming along nicely. 🤘✌️

Very impressive worK with the CNC. You are a very good at designing what will be one nice guitar.

I never saw the need to align body and wings. Just cut the wings as big rectangles, glue them to the sides of the body, and THEN shape the body as a whole. As for gluing the fretboard and placing the frets so early: a pro luthier once told me that should be last on the list. If you screw up ANYTHING else in the process, you lose your fretboard (usually expensive wood), your frets (can be expensive too if good quality SS) and most likely your trussrod will be difficult to recover. In other words, you lose all the work done to the neck if something goes wrong with the body. Sounded smart to me. The only way to salvage that would be to dump the neckthrough idea, cut the neck out, and do another regular guitar with that neck. Good video. sometimes I wish I had a router, but on the other hand I build for hobby, so what's the sense in doing cookie-cutter guitars to me? The only PITA is neck shaping, a router would be good for consistent neck profiles. Wish you luck!

Would love to see you and the wife doing some more christmas projects

Nice job on the guitar

Fantastic work!. I love the project. I have a CNC as well sot it's great to see how you create such a nice project. I am planning out a neck through semi-hollow. I would love to hear any tips you might have

Man you’ve been doing this since Highschool. You’re amazing at what you do!! Way to rep J-Rob and Cab Co. in a good way!

Nice approach Mike. I’ve never seen the dog-bone method used before and it’s really innovative. There are a whole bunch of opportunities to use it besides guitar bodies. Your whole process approach is extremely well thought out and your work holding choices are perfectly suited to maintain positional accuracy and allow aggressive cuts if desired without worry of the body shifting. Bob Mizek, Roberts Luthiery

Do you have the next step in this journey posted by chance? Id love to see the finished product

To me, the most interesting part is how you successfully align the guitar (front and back sides). I need to learn how to do this on Shaper Origin

Pretty interesting...makes me wonder if using an actual bowtie shape can be slightly offset from the cavity and thus be used like a sort of draw pin / wedge clamp to really suck the sides into the neck. Well, I know it can be done, I guess the question is if its worth the effort

not bad for first time. Its all about order of operations. Hot tip: fretboard goes on AFTER you've set the wings to the neck and carved out the body. This also gives you the ability to adjust the heights if things didn't align.

Truss Rod?

I'm confused. I thought neck through guitars were made from one single piece of wood.. Neck and body both one piece. So the same piece of wood goes all the way through the guitar. Hence the term "neck through".

Yeah I will never be able to afford any of those machines.