The back of the verneer neck has been cut. This is not the neck that will be going on the broadcaster. This is a neck I am making to replace a neck on one of my other guitars.I thought that it would be interesting to do because you don't see anyone making these much. It differs from a slab rosewood neck in that the fingerboard is a thin piece of verneer glued to a curved maple top.The markers and side dots are MOP. Fender used this method in the 60s'. There is no skunk stripe on the back of the neck because the truss rod is inserted in a slot under the fingerboard. This result is one of the nicest looking necks in my opinion.
The raw board is double faced taped to the machine to flycut it flat.
This is an end cut from the board, hence the raw area along the edge.
Once the board is flycut it is flat and I can flip it over to start the machining on the other side.
the board is flipped and a test cut is made to check the fit. I don't need it running off the piece!!
I'm ready to begin cutting.