I'm also starting to do some sort of build thread on my facebook page, a lot of people seems to enjoy see and learn a few things or too since in my country luthiers don't share much, sadly..., compare it to here, people are very supportive

anyway!, the plan is the next one.
I was going to build a "Velvet" model, but its kinda different, not sure if Im gonna name it differently or is it an update of the Velvet model shown in the next pic.

and a lot of pictures!, I'm working really fast compared to my first build, now I have confidence in what I'm doing and the process, don't need to watch a youtube video every 15 mins xd.

national wood for the neck, its named "Lingue" (persea Lingue is the scientific name I think), its a really good material for a neck, is kinda "soft" but quite strong, is the boutique in wood quality around here along with other species, it's like our own maple, but a bit less strong and with a bit sweeter sound, is between maple and mahogany I should say, not so close pore as Maple though, but machines really good, a bit of tear-out but nothing out of the ordinary, it will just look outstanding!

(someone might recognize that truss rod from another thread) that's the headstock template, I'm positioning the neck in order of avoiding most knots. oh btw, as this is a low budget build, I go away with sing the worst lingue piece I had xd, I have enough for 3 necks and this is the worst piece, still quite good overall, some little knots here and there.
on the template you see the exact position in order to have a good layout of the tuners, hope it works.

I'm very proud of this truss rod channel, I used the router this time, had a smaller bit that I should, so I did 2 passes to get the proper width, it's perfect!


glued in a side for a little tip to complete the headstock.

rough cut with jigsaw

drilled through tuner center and fixed with some nails, protected the template with some masking tape


and routed flush, it was quite tricky as I had a really small surface to rest my router, I got a little problem but got sanded away in the end without much fight, the holes drilled where I fixed the template are now guides to drill the tuner holes

missing photos* I used kinda of a jig in order to route the headstock to it's thickness, but it wasn't the best way, was quite risky and I almost destroyed my neck as I didn't have suck a good grip on everything, next time I swear I will have a good jig for this xd.
and finally I put the tuners on, as you see, they are a bit misaligned, specially the Re string (4th tuner), I will have to reevaluate how should I align my tuners, as I saw, 6 in line tuners need to be more symmetric than 3R+3L, as you might see, it's easier to spot any non alignment between each other.

they are not actually fender tuners, they yell chinese from a mile away, still they weren't the cheaper tuners around.

that's it!, I'm amazed I did all of that in only 3 days of work xd, its fun to have quick progress compared to the other thread that I had to wait months because I had problems in between :/