Carving the Neck

I was in busy bee tools and picked up a rasp and a file on sale......$2.00 each! Bonus.

I also found great clip on YouTube, about carving guitar necks, which is pretty well the same except for the 5th string peg on one side.

The basic principle is that you draw your centre line down the back of the neck, and draw a another line on each side in the centre between the edge and the centre line. Basically dividing the back of the neck into quarters. Then just make flat edges between the lines and then gradually round over after that.

Click on the photos above to get a larger photo to see what I am talking about a bit more.

The rasp took off the wood pretty quick, so you do have to be cautious, but don't worry too much you can fix it up later in the process. This probably took about an hour to get it to this point. Which was a lot quicker than I thought it would be! Starting to look a little less like kindling!