Progress! I got stalled out for ages, feeling unhappy about the restrictions on the truss rod placement from the Hipshot headpiece, and then realized I could just create my own. I generally hijacked the design used by David King, basing what I made off pictures from kingbass.com. This style of headpiece allows the truss rod to be adjusted at the head end, much more suited to a neck-through.

Once I got this created, I started work on the neck. The truss rod and graphite spars are installed, the fingerboard slotted and glued on, and the neck taper-cut on the tablesaw. The fingerboard is part-way to being compound-radiused, a slow task using a plane and a scraper on a 28-fret 6-string ebony board...