Sorry for being late on an update, today's will have to be a double with last night's work and this morning's. I started out yesterday buy routing the headplate flush with the headstock. I used a flush-trim router bit on the table:
I then took the neck over to the belt sander and sanded a rough contour for the heel:
Then with a fingerplane and gouge I roughed out the neck and headstock carves:
Then with a gouge, I rough out the heel:
Next step is to cut out the truss adjustment/nut cavity. I rigged up an ugly but functional jig for the job:
Time for the tuners. I feel like I goofed a little here by altering my headstock tuner template to put the tuners closer together at the top. To be honest I hate the results, and it means I have to get longer shaft tuners. The lines of the tuners don't go with the curves of the headstock. Oh well, I don't think it will look as off once the headstock is inlayed and painted.
I learned the hard way on my first guitar that you will snap the headstock if you don't have a drill press for this, and a block underneath and a clamp on it:
