# Fitting the plug
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First order of business this Monday morning was to fit the plug for the hole I shouldn’t have routed on Friday. It was cut by CNC - great to see the similarities and differences with 3d printing.
Tag: guitar
# Rasping the neck into shape
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With a file this time!
# First big mistake
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Routed the pickup cavity too close to the neck. I was going on my original drawings and hadn’t double checked. Repairable though, the plan is to CNC a plug to fit perfectly and glue it in on Monday.
# Rounding the neck
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Routing the round part of the neck using a router strapped to a gantry that follows a preshaped neck, which I guess strictly speaking is a conical section. A ball end restricts the movement of the…
# Roughing the neck taper
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A router and a jig make light work of cutting a taper into the neck before it gets rounded