Here's the follow up to my neck making methods.
I'll show how I cut the dovetail joint in the body and the neck blank that I previously made.

My body jig has a plug that references in the soundhole and a centerline that is used to line up the body.

The whole rig is hinged to make it easier to load the body, center it up

and then swing it into position to route.

The phenolic template is for my dovetail setup, which takes place in two operations.
The first pass is with a straight cutter to wast away the bulk of the material.


Then I switch routers to one set up with the dovetail bit.

Here's the body with it's dovetail cut.

Now I use my set up blanks (made out of a piece of clear kd cedar 4 x 4) to determine what is the proper set angle for a particular body.
I've got two of these with dovetails cut at 0, .5,1.0,and 2.0 degrees. (the set up blanks are double ended)


When I've determined the proper angel with my set up gauge that indexes in the truss rod slot I use the set up blank to adjust my neck dovetailing jig to the set angle I've decided on. This jig also hinges for loading/using.

Now I trim the end of the neck blank on my Incra miter gauge on the table saw. Again there's a spline that references in the truss rod slot.


Now I put the neck blank into the routing jig and again use a straight cutter to waste the bulk of the material and the dovetail router to make the final cut.


In a matter of minutes I've got a neck that drops right in. I'll check the set angle to be sure.



The last steps here are to thickness the headstock and run the roundover opreation (shown on my previous thread)


There you have it.
My jigs are probably the same idea as the Woolson variety. I can't say for sure as I've never seen them.
After I get my Miami guitars done, I'll consider drawing up a set of plans if there's enough interest.
-C