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Last week while I was at the lumber yard I saw they had a nice piece of pine so I decided to pick it up even though I didn't really have an immediate need. This seems like a good time to use it. Pine is kind of in keeping with the retro theme. Here's the blank (after I cut and glued it up) with the template transferred onto it.

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Here it is after a trip to the bandsaw.

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If you recall, I didn't make router templates for this one becasue its a prototype. If I like the end result, I'll make a set of templates. In this case, I use the edge sander to clean up the edges. Now I need to run it through the drum sander to remove the glue lines. That means I am going to lose my center line. In this case its also the line where the halves were joined which is pretty visible, but on some woods its not, so I usually transfer the center line down the edge at the top and bottom.

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It didn't need much to clean up the glue line. As you can just barely see, it didn't even take all of the pencil line off near the bottom. If I run my fingers over it, I can't find any trace of the seam. Drum sanders can be fine adjusted so that it takes multiple passes to remove a pencil line!

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I redraw the center line and the neck pocket, then rough out the neck pocket on the drill press.

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Here's the neck pocket template in place.

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And here's the pocket after routing. As you can see the lower side is a little ragged. Normally that side would end a little lower, but since I was shaping using the edge sander I didn't want to eat into the neck pocket area.

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All it take is a little work with a blade and some sandpaper to clean it up.

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Now its time to test the neck fit. Here are a few shots from different angles.

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Its starting to look like a guitar...

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