Then I turned my attention to the holly veneer. I carefully shaped the blank using templates. I've always felt that the Gibson headstock has perfect dimensions and feel it’s important to take your time at this stage or the whole guitar ends up looking like a cheap knock off.
I used a coping saw to rough it out, and then fine tuned it on a belt sander. The final tweaking was done by hand with sandpaper.
Then I needed to cut out the nut cavity access hole in the holly.
I drilled a hole and fed the coping saw blade through the hole...
And carefully cut out the waste material.
I touched it up with some sandpaper.
Thanks to everyone for the comments, I'm glad you're enjoying it!!