SG build with rock solid neck joint

Hi, I am not a luthier although I play one in my basement. This is the first of 3 SGs I have made so far with this kind of neck joint. They were all made with $30 necks found on Ali-express, and I plan on making my own neck for #4, with dots of course because there's no way I can do those trapezoids, I just don't have the patience. But first, let me see if this image loads.

 

That didn't work. how about this

 

Nice bevels ! Great job for a basement wanabe luthier

 

Thanks, and thanks for verifying that the pic can be seen, now I can start posting boring assembly pics.
The bevels were copied from my early 1970 SG, which is nothing more than a bare body now, as the neck cracked off in the early 80s. Which drove my determination to make a real solid neck joint.

 

Nice work, looking forward to seeing what you are doing different with the neck joint.

 

More photos please!!

 

Ok, so I was thinking we need something stronger than mahogany at the neck joint. I came up with laminating a much stiffer wood to replace the tenon and heel area, and have that wood span as far as possible. I chose padauk, it has a higher jenka hardness than maple, and glues up well, especially with the low-viscosity epoxy I'll be using.

 

I sandwich the cheap neck between wood so I can route down it's heel down to near neck profile depth.

 

I cut and tapered a piece of padauk so it matches the taper of the neck, and glued it on.

 

All glued up, and just rough sanded the heel with a belt sander. It starts at like the 13th fret and extends past the neck pickup, which is ok because of the batwing pickguard.

 

I made a jig to route the body at an angle with the correct neck taper. Glued the neck in.

 

Make the pickguard and route for pickups. I wanted the neck into the body as far as I could and still reach the 22nd fret. This is a little too far, I backed off on the other 2 guitars I made.





I'll finish tomorrow, bedtime here...

 

I am impressed, it looks fantastic. Tell us about the knob layout you chose and how it’s wired. Is that two volume and one tone?

 

Thanks, yes it's V-V-T and the neck vol is a push-pull for bass cut. I also have the selector switch rotated to follow the throw of a strat.

 

I wanted the strap button on the horn, so I slotted the horn to recess the Ernie Ball quick release button. those straplocks are awesome!

 

interesting! prs uses a deeeeep inset neck tenon on some of their guitars.

how far down does your neck heel go into the body?

 

Output jack on the side

 

Probably like an inch past the neck pickup route.

 

My 70 SG had a fiberboard headstock overlay, so I did the same here. Totally unnecessary

 

Removed the cheap frets and put in SS