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Generally I think my previous necks have been a little too thick, except for the one where I went too far and the carbon fiber is actually visible on the bottom. This time I drilled a series of holes on the back of the neck. My theory is that this will tell me to slow down when the hole disappears as I plane or rasp it. So I can take it down it bit farther and still have 1/8 inch of bamboo left before I hit the carbon fiber.

FWIW, this is my first fretboard with binding, and when I glued the fretboard to the neck, to my horror, glue started rising up from the bottom of the fret slots next to the binding in a few places. I think I got them cleaned out ok with some index cards, but next time I will look more closely and fill any gaps with dust and CA before glueing to the neck.

This stewmac Japanese Fret Slot Cleaning Saw saved me when I accidentally partially filled up a slot with ebony dust and CA on a bound fret board.

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_su ... g_Saw.html

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What species is that neck wood?
It's attractive.

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Thanks, that looks handy. Something tells me I might be ordering one of those before it is over.


That is bamboo plywood board. It is very stiff. Works pretty much like regular wood with the plane rasp and scraper, maybe a little harder on the blades. I tend to run my finger down the neck to look for lumps, with bamboo I have become an expert at removing splinters. It seems like an eco-friendly wood (actually a grass). I occasionally contemplate building an acoustic out of it, except for the soundboard. It seems like someone would have thought of that by now (Yamaha's had a bamboo soundboard and was not well liked).

This pic is rough, I'm not through shaping, but you can see the weird asymmetry.