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Sorry about your depression. Templates are looking rad and that blank looks like my wet dream as here I can't get any hard wood(pun also intended), only pines.

I've tried to make my own necks but the whole process of making it for the first time was super disappointing as I messed up a couple of mahogany and maple blanks that had taken some time to be delivered, so I wouldn't rush the process and work on it when you really feel like it.

What's the story behind that beaten up bass neck?

sunshiner wrote:I've tried to make my own necks but the whole process of making it for the first time was super disappointing as I messed up a couple of mahogany and maple blanks that had taken some time to be delivered, so I wouldn't rush the process and work on it when you really feel like it.

I'm famous for not rushing this

sunshiner wrote:What's the story behind that beaten up bass neck?

I will eventually finish removing the rosewood and put on a new rosewood board. It's a laminated cap opposed to the slab so it'll take some doing.

Will be looking forward to it. And who's that^^^?

Jaco Pastorius

I had defretted it, I asked my brother to smooth out the board a little, he over did it.

I didn’t want to sound like Jaco though, I was going for more of a Jah Wobble thing.

sunshiner wrote:And who's that^^^?

Mark Knopfler

Looking good, Paul; the eventual pay-off will be worth the sticktoitiveness in the face of that dumb ol' black dog x

Doog wrote:

sunshiner wrote:And who's that^^^?

Mark Knopfler

I see he found the brown note and his lifelong music quest is over. Feel happy for Mark

Welp, just killed it with my router. I was doing some cleanup work on the neck pocket and forgot to secure to router bit bearing… There were other aspects of this build I didn’t love so when I start over I’ll go in with more knowledge than when I started.

I’m determined to pick back up on it over the next couple of weeks. I have three more blanks so, don’t look back I s’pose.

I’ll keep on with the sister Duo-Sonic and at least I have the Sonic Kitten(s).

Good for you for looking at the silver lining
Theoretically you can make a slightly bigger template for the pocket, route it a couple of mm deeper, plug it with a bigger piece and route it again using your original template. It'll be a punk rock geetar, not clean, but ready for a fist fight.

I’ll do something like that in the future.

aw, bummer! hope you're back on the horse soon.

Aw shit. I've been there, plops. It's gutting for something to go wrong after so much work beforehand. Takes me a while to get over a catastrophic failure like that but after some time and distance you can sometimes come back to it either with a strong idea of how to fix it, or with the motivation to start again from the ground up, and you're always at a better point than you were.