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The fretboard is where the left had action happens (for me). Here's what's up. This is Bocote wood, the first time I've used that for my fretboard. It is hard and has striking, contrast grain and a smooth, easy-to-work texture.

I've built a lot of tooling and jigs to build electric guitars. Now I'm having to build and acquire more and modify some of my existing investments to adapt to the new demands of acoustic building. There are a lot of ways to do every step of guitar building and I'm just getting into it and I'm not one to just follow in the footsteps of others, obviously. I look at all that's out there and weigh how well I think they work overall and come to my conclusions. Radiusing the fretb

I'm taking influence from Trevor Gores bolt on neck strategy for my guitars. It makes a ton of sense to me from a construction point of view. It requires strength and precision and is the connection between the body and neck, the two major sub assemblies of the instrument and I've not used this approach before so it makes sense to start here before continuing. Because of the repeatable precision I am fabricating the parts via CNC in two pieces. Here are progress shots: