New Bass in Progress pt.3

Here is the scarf joint for the head-stock to the neck. Again, since this Bass was intended to be built by trying new methods, this was a major change from what I've previously done. Historically, the neck and head-stock are the same piece of wood. This creates quite a lot of waste material as the bottom section on the neck is discarded in order for the head-stock angle. This seems very wasteful, but more importantly, you encounter something called 'short grain'. Short grain is when you cut an angle across the straight grain direction thus, weakening the inherent strength in the wood. I have heard countless stories of head-stocks breaking or snapping due to this. Since you need a fairly good angle (between 13-15 degrees) for string tension at the nut, I decided on the classical method by scarf joint. Tricky to glue-up, but should give a far stronger joint.