Little update.
The body is finished now, time to work on the neck.
Since I'm going to use quite a lot of various and wide open tunings on this guitar (which is also why I decided to go for a fanfret), I asked Joel to make a really stiff neck so that the variation in the strings' tension don't make the neck move too much. I'd rather not have to touch the neck and adjust it each time I change from a tuning to another.
Joel make his own carbon fiber rods that he inserts in his neck. It's very light and super stiff which is great !
Only problem is that he ended up with a hidden knot in the Mahogany block of the neck. This was not possible to detect prior to shaping the neck. Joel wants all of his guitars to be right and perfect so, he'll start again and make a new one, saving both the fretboard and headplates in the process.
Slot for the carbon rod :
Carbon rod inserted :
Gluing it all together
Bad luck with this hidden Knot :
