Just double checking with the neck scale length--this seems too easy..

[FrankenWashie]

I don't mind refinishing it, since it's only stained at this point. This contour as is, is driving me nuts, though! How did you go about doing yours? it looks fantastic!
The saddles (that are in the bridge) I had all the way forward. It's a Tune-O-Matic style bridge

All good, if you are all forward then that should give you some reasonable adjustment at intonation.

For my contour I had a good idea of what I wanted.
I rounded the lower corner first then mounted the neck and traced that profile on to the neck heel.

Then I marked out the angle from top to bottom cutaway and free handed a curve between the two horns. The angle got roughed out with a small angle grinder and 80 grit flap disc. Refining was a combination of small Japanese rasps and a curved stewmac scraper. Once I was happy with that I used the rasps and round dowel sanding cauls to reshape the heel to suit.


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[marcianotmarsha]

All good, if you are all forward then that should give you some reasonable adjustment at intonation.

For my contour I had a good idea of what I wanted.
I rounded the lower corner first then mounted the neck and traced that profile on to the neck heel.

Then I marked out the angle from top to bottom cutaway and free handed a curve between the two horns. The angle got roughed out with a small angle grinder and 80 grit flap disc. Refining was a combination of small Japanese rasps and a curved stewmac scraper. Once I was happy with that I used the rasps and round dowel sanding cauls to reshape the heel to suit.


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Thanks! I don't have any of those tools....so, I marked out the curvature that I needed to follow from the body and kindof eyeballed it (and put it into the body and wrapped my fingers around it to see how it looked and felt for getting up to those frets after the 20th or so), then chiseled out the shape and sanded down.
My boyfriend and I watch a lot of luthier videos, so, I was semi-confident in being able to do this. (course they always seem to make things look so very easy.) I figured if anything, I would run to the local hardware store and pick up a rotary tool if I needed to.

[FrankenWashie]

Thanks! I don't have any of those tools....so, I marked out the curvature that I needed to follow from the body and kindof eyeballed it (and put it into the body and wrapped my fingers around it to see how it looked and felt for getting up to those frets after the 20th or so), then chiseled out the shape and sanded down.
My boyfriend and I watch a lot of luthier videos, so, I was semi-confident in being able to do this. (course they always seem to make things look so very easy.) I figured if anything, I would run to the local hardware store and pick up a rotary tool if I needed to.

That’s a great effort with the tools you have.
I like doing this as an aesthetic thing, but the access advantage and the better feel under hand is worth the effort. Nice job, you work far quicker than the FrankenLab!


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