Slow progress... The carbon reinforcement for the neck and centreblock done. While I think potentially laminated in place carbon is a better solution than prefabricated rods, I can't recommend it. Getting decent consolidation of the layup was far harder than I hoped, and I have a good bit of experience with the material.
The black stripe is carbon, it runs down the neck and then is spread out across the centre block, so the strands of carbon run from the headstock right through to the tail block.
I've kinda fallen in love with wood rasps. Its never been a tool in my armoury, I've always used things with blades, but as the wood rasp seems to be the tool of choice for neck shaping I bought those couple of cheap Chinese ones . No doubt they'll get blunt before too long, especially when I get onto the rosewood finger board, but I can well understand why people are willing to pay 70quid plus for top quality ones.
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