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Does the gluing face of the heel block need to be flat or can it have a slight curve before gluing to the sides? Same for the tail block?

Does anyone have a tutorial on how to build an elevated fingerboard or cantilivered neck?

Can I use cherry or black walnut when making a bridge? Trying to use local woods. I have some scrap pear, can that be used?

Does fish glue smell bad? Does the smell go away after it dries? Does it creep a lot?

Does anyone have experience using fish glue? What are the pros and cons of using instead of hide glue?

Yes a crowning file. Can I ground a concave in a piece of brass and use emery cloth in the concave cut?

Has anyone ever made fret roundover files? Pics?

Actually I'm thinking about a deadhead sander. Something like Charles Fox uses.

Has anyone built with adjustable saddles? How do they affect the tone? Do they make intonation easier?

You can get glasses inserts. They fit on a wire frame and just spring fit inside the face mask. I use a pair at my day job as a hazardous waste receiving chemist. Just check with the respirator manufacturer. They normally carry inserts.

Would anyone have plans and pics available of a neck shaping jig? Thanks.

Does anyone have any plans for making pinless bridges? I would like to attempt this type of bridge for a current build. The bridge blank I currently have is thicknessed to 5/16".

I might be wrong on the 15 degrees. It is slanted to the left though and the neck needs shimmed in the pocket. I'll post pics as soon as I can.

At this time the pitch is not set. The yaw is off making the neck slant to the left. I need to adjust the depth of the neck in the pocket to make it align with the top.

Yes Clay it is a bolt on mortise and tenon. I've been trying to shim the bottom of the joint to get the neck flush with the top. Is the neck angle produced from the cheeks of the tenon meeting the body at a precut angle?

I need some help with this one. After preferring the neck to the body it is misaligned by about 15 degrees. How do I fix this? I cut the mortise and tenon by hand and thought I had it properly aligned with the center line. It's a small body thin line acoustic with a 25' top and back.

Ok. Thanks Waddy.

What size water pipe and dowel rods did you use Waddy? What size are the springs you used also?

Yes. Thanks. Guess I'll have to try to switch the setup.

I put the captive bolt in the bottom of my adjustable neck block instead of the top so my adjustment bolt is in the top. Will this create any problems with neck angle adjustment. I'm not sure it can be switched.