We moved on to setting and gluing the truss rods in place with the help of a Lee Valley hide glue pot. This is a really handy gadget which made using hide glue much less onerous (read messy) than in my previous efforts.
Glue was spread on the maple wedge that is fitted on the truss rod, as well as on the steel ball and the sides and bottom of the channel where there is contact with the wedge. Masking tape was used on the surfaces adjacent to the channel to shield neck wood from squeezed out glue. The glue starts to gel in about a minute, so time must be used efficiently. A heat gun can be used to keep the glue pliable for another minute or so. A 1/4"(minus) strip of maple was used with screw clamps to force the wedge to the bottom of the channel.
I fitted the roasted maple skunk stripe into my #2 (birch) neck as shown below. The strip was fitted as neatly as possible and glued with white wood glue. The glue was first mixed with very fine sanding dust sanded from a scrap of roasted maple. This paste was used so a couple of very very tiny gaps between the skunk stripe and the maple channel would fill with the paste squeeze-out.
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