Dan's Acoustic Guitar Build Part 3/5 With Jonny Kinkead

It's time for neck shaping, neck joint, truss rod, frets and bindings!

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Dan here, hello once more! Following Part 2, the guitar is now really starting to take shape as Jonny moves on to the neck. We also look at the bindings in this episode.
Just two more parts to come now before my wonderful new guitar is completed. I’m stoked to be able to share this with you – please join me in thanking Jonny again for this incredible insight and his graceful patience with me knocking around his workshop.

This is part three of five. For more on Jonny and his instruments, visit https://www.kinkadeguitars.co.uk/

Part One:    • Dan's Acoustic Guitar Build Part 1/5 With ...  
Part Two:    • Dan's Acoustic Guitar Build Part 2/5 With ...  

Q: Why are you spelling Jonny’s name ‘Kinkead’?
A: Because that’s his name! The guitars are ‘Kinkade’, Jonny is ‘Kinkead’. He chose ‘Kinkade’ for the guitars because nobody could spell ‘Kinkead’ correctly.

0:00 Roughing out the neck
1:35 Using rasps to shape the neck
2:40 Neck dimensions
5:00 Best all-round dimensions?
6:40 Neck shaping template
8:10 Letting the stresses out of the timber
11:05 Body with bindings
12:15 What is the binding made of?
17:00 How the bindings are put on
17:35 Scraping back the bindings
18:40 The magic scraper
22:50 Sharp edges on the binding
23:20 Flame koa binding
24:40 Fitting the neck to the body
25:10 Tapered dovetail joint
27:10 Getting the pitch right
28:50 Shaping the heel joint
30:40 Mechanics of the neck joint
34:00 Point of contact
37:28 How the truss rod works
41:25 How deep into the neck is the truss rod set?
44:47 Neck is connected, and truss rod is in
46:35 Planing back the truss rod fillet
48:40 Ready for the fingerboard
49:50 Cutting the fret slots
55:53 The fret wire
56:54 Fingerboard, meet your guitar!
58:50 The angle of the nut
1:00:15 The camber of the fingerboard

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