A Guitar Called Jack--Part 71

Here the body is prepped for the neck to be installed. The footprint for the fingerboard overhang has been enlarged to its full size. This area is bordered with masking tape (3 layers high), creating a small ridge so that the fingerboard overhang will not move out of place while the glue dries attaching the overhang to the soundboard. (Gerry uses only a little white glue under the overhang and none at all on the heel itself. This join doesn't require much staying power, as the neck heel is bolted onto the soundbox, and the fingerboard overhang naturally pushes down on the soundbox. White glue is used, so that in the future if the neck needs to be removed (e.g., to replace a broken truss rod, or to reset the neck), the glue will release more readily, than say, if yellow glue had been used.