Dan Erlewine's do-it-yourself neck shaping jig
Issue 230 November 20, 2014
A different sort of Erlewine Neck Jig: Dan’s building guitars out of black walnut that he’s saved for forty years. For carving and shaping, he comes up with an easy-to-make jig to hold a neck at just the right working angle. It spins and tilts too!
About the guitar in this video: Dan’s building these electrics out of the same batch of black walnut he used to create Albert King’s “Lucy” guitar in 1971.
- Dan’s plywood neck holder.
- A StewMac angle vise for tilt-and-rotate.
- Holds and protects the neck while filing.
- Super glue hardens screw threads cut into plywood.
