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Serge Poirier

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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:02 am

Brazilian Rosewood

Joined: Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:32 am
Posts: 7774
Location: Canada

Very clever jig Terence, thanks for sharing this brilliant idea!

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peterm

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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:23 am

Brazilian Rosewood

Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:05 pm
Posts: 3350
Location: Bakersville, NC
Focus: Build
Status: Professional

love the idea! Thanks for sharing!!

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Kelby

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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:42 am

Koa

Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:18 pm
Posts: 785
Location: United States

Very handy!

My method is not nearly so hi-tech. I use a spot of superglue to temporarily patch a popsicle stick at the nut location on the neck (perpendicular to the neck's width). I put the neck on my drill-press table popsicle-side-down. The popsicle stick lifts the headstock-end of the neck up just enough that a few passes with a Wagner Safe-T-Planer gives a perfect taper. I pop the popsickle stick off with a chisel, clean it up with two or three passes of a block plane, and the neck is tapered.

Your way is much cooler.

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John How

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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:54 am

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Location: United States
First name: John
Last Name: How
City: Auburn
State: Ca
Country: USA

My method is similar to Kelby's except I have a tapered board with a sort of tenon that runs down the center of it and fits into the neck's truss rod slot. I also use a Safe-T-planer on the drill press for the cutter.

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Dave Anderson

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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:51 pm

Brazilian Rosewood

Joined: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:11 am
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Location: Tampa Bay
First name: Dave
Last Name: Anderson
City: Clearwater
State: Florida
Zip/Postal Code: 33755
Country: United States

Very cool jig Terry !

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L. Presnall

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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:55 pm

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Joined: Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:14 am
Posts: 2590
Location: United States

Anyone have a cool jig for shaping the heel? (Me neither...)...I kind of use John Maye's router one from the neckmaking video, but still end up doing alot by hand...a maple neck convinced me there must be a better way....

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