Dovetail Neck

[G. M. Seigmund]

Anybody use a table saw for the neck/neckblock?

[Michael Lewis]

Sounds scary. I use a router for guitars and a band saw for most mandolins.

[Bill Raymond]

I've not done it, but don't see why it couldn't be done. I wouldn't try it with the neck block glued in place to the sides, though, and I'd make appropriate fixtures for safely guiding the block and neck stock past the blade!

[Greg Robinson]

I can't envision how you could achieve a blind dovetail joint using a table saw.

[G. M. Seigmund]

John Arnold & Wayne Henderson use a table saw. Martin did it for years, I was just curious?

Thanks

Michael, I got those F-5 plans from Elderly, very very nice. I'm starting to carve that walnut back you roughed out. Thats some hard walnut.

[Bill Raymond]

Greg: Not a blind, but a through tapered dovetail joint. I've made these type of joints by hand; there's no reason you really need a blind dovetail joint if you taper the dovetail to be rather small at the back. If one sees a need, a small plug could be inserted in the small end to provide a continuous gluing surface for the back of the guitar and the tenon on the neck be shortened a bit to accommodate; ergo, a pseudo-blind dovetail joint, perhaps one with 20/100 vision?

[Greg Robinson]

To be honest, I've never seen a through tapered dovetail joint on a steel string, only semi-blind.

[G. M. Seigmund]

Scroll down through the pic's last one is the neck block.

http://laneguitars.blogspot.com/2010/04 ... ur_08.html

I saw a Martin neck block with those cuts in John Arnolds shop.

[Greg Robinson]

The techniques shown there don't look very safe. Hands too close to and past the blade.
If you were to try this, make sure to build a jig to so you can use push sticks.