The Charles Fox Guitar-Building Method, Part Four

by Mark French

Originally published in American Lutherie #142, 2021

See also,
A Guitar Is Born: Attending Charles Fox’s Hands-On Guitar Making Course by Mark French
The Charles Fox Guitar-Building Method, Part One by Mark French
The Charles Fox Guitar-Building Method, Part Two by Mark French
The Charles Fox Guitar-Building Method, Part Three by Mark French
The Charles Fox Guitar-Building Method, Part Five by Mark French
The Charles Fox Guitar-Building Method, Part Six by Mark French



Early in this series we got the neck under way, then soon laid it aside to focus solely on creating the body. The body is now as complete as it can be without its neck, so from here on it’s all neck, all the time, until the neck is complete.

To bring us up to date on the neck:

We began with a 7/8˝×3˝×36˝ mahogany neck blank, 12˝ of which we chopped off to later be cut into four pieces and stacked beneath the arm as the heel block.