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rougthly 6mm or 1/4" before radiussing. Go thinner on the fretboard if you are after a super skinny neck but much less than 4mm is not really advisable. depending where you buy from blanks can often be 10mm, more if rough sawn. classicals often have thicker boards
of course, because I wouldn't want to lead you down a painting by numbers route, there are other approaches with thinner boards... like fender Veneer boards which Gordon Smith also did a variation on for a while too. essentially you radius the neck blank and glue on a 2mm veneer to radiused blank.
What issues are you having with the build?
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It was, but Ben Crowe covers this well in one of his videos. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
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I bought an old No7 Plane and gave it a good sharpen and set it for very fine cuts and then just kept checking the radius at the nut and 24 fret regularly. It was my fourth build so I have gaining quite a bit of experience so felt confident to give it a go. But as long as you take it slowly and keep checking with a good straight edge and radius gauges you will get there in the end.
Getting the fretborad and neck angle right is over half the battle with any guitar build, so why not try a full build. It’s very rewarding and I don’t believe I can now buy a better electric guitar than I can build, regardless of budget.
Accumulating all the right tools plus you can’t buy the materials the prices the big boys can, means it’s not a cheap option, but it is very rewarding.
Andrzej