Small huge step today.
To access the truss rod, you need to drill a hole in the arc that leads from the neck down to the head stock.
The rim of the collar of the truss rod is 1/16th thick. The collar sits 1/32" lower than the surface of the neck, so that far down tells me how far away from the edge of the drop the top of the hole needs to be. Read that last sentence again slowly.
I forgot to take pics during, but here's the result. I munged the top a little bit with a careless twitch of the dremel router bit I used to carve the notch for the drill bit. It will be covered by the finger board anyway, so...
Oh, I went to a cool place today...
Exotic wood company in Sicklerville.
They sell cool wood. And guitar specific wood. Like pre-slotted finger boards.
I think I'll use one of these on this guitar. One less thing to worry about, and I do want it to be playable, so I bought 2 Indian rosewood pre-slotted boards.. About $25 each. And saves me an unknown, but most likely large chunk of time.
Anyway, it worked out ok.
Here is the rod bowed back :
And forward :
I also bought 2 flamed maple neck blanks and 2 coco bolo finger board blanks. I'll post pics when I go back in the house. The maple is mesmerizing.