Starting Work on the Neck

The neck of this guitar will follow the same design idea of being a simple design on a small guitar.. in this case a sandwich or Cedro/Ebony/Cedro.. I have to admit I like working with Cedro (Spanish Cedar) it has a great odour..

The neck sandwich was first glued up then the scarf joint is cut, smoothed with a hand plane and glued up..
I've seen lots of ways to glue the odd angles of a scarf joint and keep things from slipping but the easiest I've seen is just to use binding tape to hold things from slipping while clamping pressure is applied so that is what I use

The neck sandwich

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Scarf joint cut and glued up