I had decided on a broad flat neck similar to a classical guitar that would be nice and slim like my Yamaha buts still feel kind of chunky like my Les Paul
I started by first of all making a band of the profile...
...at both ends of the neck. I spent a good long while getting a feel for how they felt in my hand and tweaking them as necessary.
I then started joining those bands up on one side...
...then the other.
These build are never without their hiccups! When I was carving the channel for the carbon fibre rods my depth stop tape move and I ended up drilling a little further than I'd planned. At the time I filled them level with the channel and forgot about them until now. Quite clearly I hadn't filled them enough...
This time I packed in some saw dust and long meranti fibres all mixed with glue.
This was designed to make it look more like natural variance rather than a wood filler repair
Now that the headstock and heal have been shaped and some of the sanding has been done it's not too obvious that it's been repaired. Once the final sanding and shaping has been done and finishing oil has been applied it should be even less visible.
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