Well, for a number of reasons, the neck I'm building is ending up going slower than I had hoped, so I decided I would use a pre-made neck. It was rescued from an acoustic, and I modified the bottom end to have the overhang. I didn't get much in way of pictures, but essentially what I did was remove the old fingerboard from the existing neck (very careful prying - very anxious was I), and take out the truss rod. It had been oriented with the adjustment at the bottom end, so you could work with it from the sound hole on the acoustic. In my case, I want the adjustment at the top end, to be hidden under a truss rod cover. Obviously, my guitar won't have a convenient sound hole down at the bottom end of the board.
I had to extend the cut for the truss rod out beyond the nut region. I looks a bit of a mess right now, but that will clean up and get repainted. After some effort to ensure that the gluing surface was flat and true, I got my courage up and splashed on the glue. In this case, I didn't use the waterproof Titebond I had been using for other parts, mainly because it's quite possible the fingerboard will need to be removed at some point or other.
I wanted the head stock to be "my own", so I re-cut the top end into a new shape. It isn't the shape I originally designed, because it wasn't wide enough.
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