It's time to assemble the neck. In this photo, you can see the various neck parts resting on the box – the ebony-bound Braz. fretboard with ebony dot fretmarkers at frets 5, 7, 9, 12 & 15; the roughed-out mahogany neck, ready for the trussrod and fretboard; the headplate on a sheet of ebony (the excess will be trimmed away leaving a 'bound' headplate) and, on the right, under the raw headstock, the two bookmatched sections of the backplate glued to sheets of b/w/b purfling. When the backplate is glued on and the headstock is trimmed to shape, the sheet will leave an edge of b/w/b purfling under the backplate.
A closeup of the bound body, fretboard & soundhole. Note how the Braz. purfling on the body matches the thinner Braz. rings in the rosette.
Closeup of the position markers on the side of the fretboard at frets 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 & 15.
The head- & backplates have been glued to the headstock and trimmed. Now the fretboard is glued to the neck. It'll be time to start shaping it soon...
