I think I'm going to have a bunch of questions so I thought I had better start a topic.
The first mistake, of course was to decide to go my own way rather than do the sensible thing and buy a set of well founded plans, which would provide all the dimensions and things that are making me nervous, and the second is to go very unconventional on build method, rendering it difficult for folk to comment usefully anyway. The trouble is, although I have built a couple of instrument bodies, I have never constructed a neck, and that's what I'm getting nervous about.
Anyway this is where we stand, headstock, neck/centre block assy, ribs and what will become a tail block.
The wood is mostly what I had so it's old Sapele, unfortunately not truly quarter sawn, but reversed so the grain is mirrored, and a band of maple in between. The plan is that what looks like a truss rod slot will contain laminated in place carbon which will run right from the headstock across the neck splice and neck/centreblock join and the tailpiece.
The first thing that is worrying me is that when I measure up the neck on my vintage Washburn and on guitars I am getting 15mm thickness (+ fingerboard to come on top of that). Is this reasonably conventional, I'm having a confidence crisis and thinking it looks awfully thin... The carbon should make strength no issue, so not sure why this confidence problem!
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