Phoenix Rising Guitar Building Series Episode 16 | Glueing the Neck at the Correct Break Angle.
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 Published On Premiered Sep 23, 2024

In this episode I'm preparing the guitar neck for the final glue up by setting the correct break angle, adjust the heel to get to the correct string height, drill the holes for the bridge and route all the cavities for the hum bucker pickups.

Join me in the workshop where I give jou a honest look into what it takes to make one of my guitars.

Making the Headstock inlay:
Cutting the letters: https://youtube.com/live/3cLZ_Z4PEZA?...
Routing the Inlay: https://youtube.com/live/b7RaRDbCb1M?...

This is the first guitar building series coming from the new workshop so I'm very excited to show you around as I'm building this guitar and explain what I'm doing and more importantly, why and how I'm doing things.

For a brief history behind this guitar you can watch the following videos:
   • What's happening?? - Anxiety and Depr...  
   • Thanks to your support I'm still here...  
   • Phoenix Rising - Prologue, A Guitar B...  

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:02 Adjusting the heel.
1:29 Marking the scale length
2:22 String height - 1
3:00 Adjusting the heel height - 1
7:02 String height - 2
8:20 Adjusting the heel height - 2
11:39 String height - 3
12:54 Final adjustments
14:30 Scale length check
15:14 checking neck alignment
17:15 Bridge placement
19:25 Pickup placement
21:17 Bridge stud placement
23:44 Drilling the stud holes
25:43 Routing pickup cavities
40:08 Output jack hole
44:42 Sanding the body
47:01 Final neck adjustment
50:28 Glueing in the neck
56:35 Neck to Body transition
1:03:24 End result
1:03:58 Outro

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