Nice!! Never thought of using a drill to make the cut follow the line like that. I used a back saw and did my best to follow the line that I did my best to draw by eye. Got lucky!! Love your system for marking a good, true line! Much better than luck😅!
I still don't really get how you do the neck angle thing. Drilling the hole in the neck for the dowel by hand, the average person wouldn't be able to rely on the dowel being parallel to the fretboard, in which case one could adjust the string height by the location of the exit hole of the dowel from butt end of the gourd--which is how I did my first (and so far only) build, using a one-piece neck/dowel. As I've mentioned, you have an intuition working for you based on experience, which may not be duplicatable. @@LowlyMountainBanjos 😅
Nice!! Never thought of using a drill to make the cut follow the line like that. I used a back saw and did my best to follow the line that I did my best to draw by eye. Got lucky!! Love your system for marking a good, true line! Much better than luck😅!
And ironically I now skip all that. Now I eyeball a line and allow the panel saw to guide me straight.
@@LowlyMountainBanjos That's kind of how it went for me.
sweet job
When you cut the snout of the gourd off, did you cut it at a right angle to the future soundtable (head)?
It really depends on a few things. In the end it depends on if I want to put a back angle on the neck or not.
I still don't really get how you do the neck angle thing. Drilling the hole in the neck for the dowel by hand, the average person wouldn't be able to rely on the dowel being parallel to the fretboard, in which case one could adjust the string height by the location of the exit hole of the dowel from butt end of the gourd--which is how I did my first (and so far only) build, using a one-piece neck/dowel. As I've mentioned, you have an intuition working for you based on experience, which may not be duplicatable. @@LowlyMountainBanjos 😅