Bunkatronic
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Nice man! The planning for the contours is looking like it’s going to work out awesome!
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It's cold and rainy today, and so since my neck carving buck necessarily protrudes out my garage door, I didn't proceed with the neck today.
Instead, I worked on the body.
My primary material-removing tool is this big 17" farrier's rasp:
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The coarse side (shown above) removes material faster than anything else I've tried, including that damned Shinto rasp. The other side produces a much nicer surface, but still needs some work.
Once I get it in the rough shape I want, I switch to my StewMac dragon rasps.
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They produce a pretty good finish, but not really sanding/scraping ready. After the dragon rasp, I switch to a bastard file, which is ready for finessing with sanding and scraping.
But that's for another day. I'm tired.
So here is how it sits today:
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And that's done.
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Tomorrow I hope to finish profiling the body and radius/fret the fretboard.