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Tapering jigs for Neck Through Laminates
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:33 pm
by Andrew McSpadden
I am going to do some neck through guitars this year and wanted to use tapered layers. In thinking about jigs to accurately I wondered if anyone had something that worked well for them and would be willing to share a picture?!?
Thanks
Re: Tapering jigs for Neck Through Laminates
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:10 am
by Jarno Verhoeven
A tapering jig for table legs would work, that's where you clamp the wood to a sled at an angle, before cutting it.
https://www.finewoodworking.com/project ... GL_H1nIXWX
Re: Tapering jigs for Neck Through Laminates
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2025 7:41 am
by JC Whitney
Jarno nailed it. The nice part is that you’ll only be tapering on one axis, not two.
Re: Tapering jigs for Neck Through Laminates
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2025 1:29 pm
by Barry Daniels
It depends on what tool you will be using. I made a tapered laminate on my Performax abrasive planer by taping cross pieces of wood of increasing thickness on the back of the laminate.
Re: Tapering jigs for Neck Through Laminates
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:11 am
by Jarno Verhoeven
On the jointer/planer is also an option, but the ones with a cutting head are scary enough in my opinion. It's a valid option for sure, but seeing it being performed, gave me shivers (maybe it's my inexperience with a jointer).
https://youtu.be/KQ9wHA17FD0?si=1mDSewls2APcyNYF
The drawback of the table saw jig is that you need to expose quite a bit of blade, but if you make the jig wide enough you can keep your hands far away.
Come to think of it, it might be a US/UK english thing, do you mean a jig on a thickness planer? I can imagine that is pretty safe, but how does that work with the transport rolls? Or is that manual feed?