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Originally Posted by woodturner
I have been following your neck building thread with interest. I have my blank cut and built my own truss rod. I am having a difficult time making the jig to cut the truss rod slot. I have drawn out a quite a few templates and seem to get it wrong each time.
Would it be possible to post some basic dimensions of your jig?
Regards,
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Are you particularly hung up on the vintage style rod? If it was me, and bear in mind that I'm only on my first neck, I would get one of the single- or double-action rods that sit in a flat bottomed slot like in this post
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/1846206-post2.html. You don't need a curved channel and you don't have to worry about anchoring at the headstock end and filling the hole. The only 'jig' you need is to clamp the neck down and clamp a straight edge parallel to your centreline that either your router base or 1/4" router bit can run against.
I'm sure Jack will come in, but you can make a jig for the curved truss rod channel by using the strat neck cross-section that he has posted a few times. Have a look in Bill Scheltema's thread as well.
Cheers
Dave