The Deluxester Prototype - Sonic's foray into repeatable scratch builds

[McCreed]

I do it this way so that I have the flat un-carved neck to fix to the bench (using tape and superglue)

Ah, I get it now. Makes sense.

Have you tried carving your necks with a spokeshave instead of a surform tool? I know a lot of builders like them.
They're about 90 bucks, but are supposed to give really good control and results. I have one on "the list" but haven't made the investment yet.

[Sonic Mountain]

Ah, I get it now. Makes sense.

Have you tried carving your necks with a spokeshave instead of a surform tool? I know a lot of builders like them.
They're about 90 bucks, but are supposed to give really good control and results. I have one on "the list" but haven't made the investment yet.

Not really, my approach to guitars comes via sculpture and auto body work, so I'm using what I'm familiar with where possible to do shaping. I have seen loads of planes and different chisels and things that look interesting, but at the moment this is working fine for me and I have plenty of control.

I'm really not much of a woodworker. I've messed around with it plenty, but usually utilitarian stuff, never really to build nice objects.

Part of why I want develop a repeatable, template and shop machinery based, build is to take the human error out of a lot of it.

Finishing I can do well, it's getting to that point easily that's the trick for me.