Some time ago I posted a sketch I made outlining (literally) my idea for another non-standard guitar. It's pretty simple, conceptually: 30" scale, probably 7 strings. The only ambitious thing about it is that I intend to build it, not modify another instrument to assume those specs.
Yesterday I started gluing my neck blank.
You can't see it in this picture, but there are actually 12 clamps up and down the blank. I ran out of C-clamps so there are five spring clamps right next to each other on the far end. I hope they provided enough force.
Here you can see the actual makeup of the laminated blank. The middle piece is maple, flanked by two pieces of mahogany. Protecting the mahogany from the C-clamps are two pieces of rosewood. I know, normal people use actual scraps, but I got a bunch of these rough fingerboard blanks for $ (approaching) 0 and they work great.
The blank is longer than 30" so I am hoping this will be a neck-through instrument. I am planning to put two more pieces of maple outside the wood you see here so the lower part of the neck can be wider and to start building the body out from it.
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