How to Install a Bolt On Neck Without a Drill Press
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2018
- This video is part of a series I've done on how I built my Fender Custom Shop 1962 style heavy relic Stratocaster. This particular video focuses on how I installed the neck without using a drill press. Some basics on the guitar below:
Fender mint green 62 pickguard
Fender aged white covers and knobs
Fender American Vintage Reissue Tremolo
John Benson 63 hand-wound pickups
Grease bucket tone controls
Treble bleed circuit on volume knob
Back tone tied to bridge pickup
Gotoh vintage style (Kluson) tuners
TUSQ nut
Musikraft neck
See more videos on this guitar here: • Relic Nitro Strat Build
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you really do all of us a favor by documenting your DIY adventures. please keep it up Nathan!
Thank you so much for this. It is great to find someone on RUclips who acknowledges that not all of have a drill press in our back pocket. I am building my first guitar ever from parts acquired and have just ordinary household tools. I have little talent and no experience. You are both an inspiration and of great practical help to me.
Thanks for posting. I need to fit my neck and bridge soon, but I lack any sort of workbench or vise to hold everything together. This was helpful.
Revisiting this video series again.
Hello Nathan, I'm doing a kitchen table telecaster, no drill press. As you did .I'm dreading this step. This upload helped me out a lot! Especially the tip about wrapping the drill bit with tape. Thank you! So damn the torpedoes!
I’ve been thinking over the last couple of days how to do exactly what you have just done,thank you
Really helpful, thanks! I’m currently rebuilding my first electric from 15 years ago, kind of a learning project but hopefully will be making it into a really good guitar
Thank you for the video, incredibly informative, I will be coming back to this later on in the week when my baritone conversion neck shows up for my Strat, already blacked out the hardware (save the tuners of course haha) this afternoon!
Thanks very much for this video! I'm doing the exact same thing now! Cheers!
I used a $25 right angle screw jig from Amazon, and marked my drill bit with tape for the proper depth to drill my holes into my new strat neck. Took a lot of worry out of it for me, since it was my first time drilling a neck. Worked great, and it was worth the $25 not to ruin the neck. I'm pretty sure I use a 3/16 bit.
I'm about to do this exact procedure on my jaguar bass. Not gonna lie, I'm a little nervous. Thanks for sharing the way you accomplished it. -Cheers
After 50+ years of playing Stratocasters and loving them dearly, I just can’t understand why people intentionally damage a guitars looks and calling it “relic” I don’t mean to diss you dude, fine video, it’s your guitar and you can do whatever you want!
I have a Tonebomb body too but it''s in HSS route. I put only a little thought into the neck alignment and got lucky though. That's probably because the Stew Mac Mighty Mite neck was a very snug fit and the neck pocket was squared up nicely. After marking the neck drill locations through the body, I was just careful to use a drill press ... or lucky enough to now own a drill press. A machinist showed me to start all holes with a center drill countersink bit as it won't wobble like a drill bit. So the holes were started and positioned correctly. Anyway, that only applies if a person has a drill press. You've shown us how to get things right without a drill press. Thankfully guys like you are also showing people how to test neck alignment with the E strings on and the neck clamped in place. I could have completely botched the neck alignment because I didn't know that tip.
Thank you very much for your "tutorial" bro. I am like you. Not a professional luthier kk, and have a new neck coming today. I've done this before but had to check it again . Have the same problems and doubts you showed in your video kk, hope I do it ok.
Good advice...thank ya
I am building my own strat using an USA American Special body. But i believe the original Fender necks comes pre-drilled. But i would gone this way:
This might be a dumb question, but could you clamp the neck your way, drill two holes, insert and tighten two screws in those two holes to fixate the neck? Then remove the clamp and drill the remaining two holes?
Thanks Nathan. I'm Tru-Oiling my neck right now(last coat), and then the dreaded fitting. Never done it before. I might chicken out! Haha BTW, i have no bench either. Haha
The neck pop thing is to ensure the end of the heel is hard up against the pocket. Iv had some strats that sound dead and wouldn’t intonate on the high e until I did it to them.
Would it be easier to just clamp the neck, score the holes, then take the neck off and drill it using a portable drill guide? That way the neck is lying down and you are pressing on it and the guide. You could also clamp the flat part of the neck to a workshop table and press down on the guide hard. Does that make sense? Do you know if there is a standard depth to drill the holes on a Fender neck?