That is some nice maple

thank you for your precious video!

AWESOME!!!

Brilliant video, Jeff. Very helpful, and great to see all of your neat jigs and techniques.

Cool neck build Jeff. You've helped inspire me to get into some woodworking, and guitar/bass building!

Very nice job Jeff. Sanding a radius in the fretboard is such a PITA. I’ve started using a fretboard radius jig with my router and just finish off with the radius sanding block. Finished in 30 minutes - I’ll never go back.

Hey man, awesome vid! It was super helpful for my first bass project. Thanks a million✌

looks awesome. thanks for the tips.

GREAT JOB JEFF !

It is an improvement! Looks great. Good job well done.

Good stuff lad. Keep at it. ;) Enjoy the rest of the weekend. A+ to Greg too. What a cool guy. Nice one.

THANK YOU SIR.

Nice Job...I like....

I think it looks great. Cool custom truss rod tool! This is the first video on this subject I have watched, and I learned a few things!

Good job Man!

Great job on the build. As a musician, and I'm sure your friend would agree, you can make the neck feel a bit better by sanding a gradual change from a 12" radius to a 14" radius starting around the 15th or 16th fret.

great video Jeff, i'm currently making a tele, haven't started the body yet, just the template, but overall trying to get all my parts and pre-assembly done and your vids definitely give me the motivation! thanks again!

Very nicely done I need a Fender P- bass neck and I’ve thought about making it myself, that’s kind of how I found your channel.

You have great insight thanks sooo much . I have a massive problem paying 400 for a bass neck .

I'm just getting into building. Mainly cigar box guitars & I have 3 great art deco chocolate tins that will make great resonators. I have all the wood for the necks that came out of my kitchen cupboard & all the right tools. Just gotta do it now. Cheers man from the UK. Liverpool, home to a lil known beat combo you may have heard of? Lol.

Hey my friend. Here's something i do when i radius my fingerboard. Once i get the radius to near zero tolerance. I use a 4 inch radius tester to see where i need to sand more. I darken the room some, and use a LED light to backlash the radius tester. I run this 4 inch tester along the fretboard to see where it may need more sanding. I use a pencil to highlight the area where light is showing through. The LED light from the back of the tester will illuminate any area that may need more shaping. It works great for me!! Here's something else you may consider down the road. Some bass players like myself, like a more wider neck to fit a 3/4" spacing at the bridge. Some bass necks are more narrow at the bridge - to - nut width spacing. I even make my six string bass necks; that i use for myself, at 3/4" spacing at the bridge. I hope this makes sense to ya..lol. But, if i am making one for another person, i normally ask them what spacing they prefer, what style of music they play the most: rock, jazz, funk, etc. Different fingerboard wood changes the sound too. their position when they play the most: setting, standing, etc. Even the thickness of the neck itself. Because of the pressure each position bares on the tension of the neck. Also, if you're making a 5 or 6 string bass, you may want to use support rods on each side of the truss rod. This will help tremendously in keeping the neck very stable against the higher tension of the added strings. Great work though bro.. Please keep up the amazing work you do. God bless you and your family my friend.

Great job, Jeff. You make it look easy! I know I deliberate a LOT over those finesse cuts such as paring down the thickness of the headstock. I like your slot cutter fixture, too. How did you get the slot centered on the neck and aligned properly?

Wow nice work on that neck! That maple is beautiful. I've made one tele style guitar neck so far. The neck shaping and the cutting the fret slots in the right locations were the iffy parts for me...the rest is just regular woodworking operations.

Using the rule of 18 or Fretfind, you can find your fret positions beforehand. Also, your neck should be around .800 thick at the front of the nut and .925 just before the heel

Hey, Jeff! Did you radius the fretboard at all? :) This is a great video and I love your stuff on here. Consider yourself up another subscriber!

Great vid and neck blank. How does the truss assembly stay in it's groove? Glue on the bottom or is it wedged in there? Thanks!

Awesome I prefer instal freets first on fretboard

Great Job! One question: DO you use just a normal lacquer for the fretboard? With round wound strings the laquer will wear of quite quickly, won‘t it? Don‘t they use epoxy or boat laquers for maple fretboards,, normally?

Have some serious questions for you re measurements for centre line and scale calculations etc. Would love to pick the brain ha

Where did you get that truss rod drill bit? That thing is awesome

very cool Jeff, also lefty players unite!!

good video and nice neck. but strings will damage the fretboard.

What would be cool is repairing the other neck so there is always the option to switch back

If that old neck is still around, I'd like to buy it off you if you'd let me.

shrinck wrap serve to avoid trussrod noise, not to protect from glue, a double action truss rod will not work well with glue on it, it's true for single but for an other reason! he goos idea that warwick had ( now they make double action single rod trussrod ) is to put some grease on the truss rod, it avoid noise and glue to stick at the rods! Anyway glue never make good things in trussrod channel

So before I watched your video , I had to watch a video "How to remove the fret board".

Who the fuck puts the truss rod adjustment at the bridge side of the neck? Seems real whack to me