Concert Ukulele, Neck shaping *UPDATE*

So last night I got the fretting/binding done and glued the fretboard down onto the neck.  Slept forever today and woke up at 3:30pm, guess my cat decided to let me sleep for once.  Took my allergy meds and got to work immediately downsizing the overhang so the neck and fretboard were as flush as i could get em.  I had planned on using my orbital sander like I did on Tom's, but the sandpaper I bought isn't as high quality as 3m, so I ended up block planing the crap out of it.  Once it was smooth enough for my liking, I went at it with my rasps and files.  Last weekend I had watched an episode of The Woodwright's Shop with Roy Underhill and they were taling about how handcut rasps seem to cut more thoroughly than machine cut, so I tried out my shitty 3 dollar Harbor Freight rasp set over the more expensive Home Depot set.  Needless to say, I no longer think the cheap ones are so shitty.  Anyways, here's a bunch of pics, there's still some more filing and sanding to do, but its about 90% done.

And here's today's work so far.  As I said, still a little work needs to be done to clean up as many tool marks as possible.

I'm going to try to condense the next several blog posts, I have something special planned for my 100th entry.

*UPDATE*

Just slotted the headstock and drilled for tuners.  Learned a new technique involving the drill press and chisels, so I can ditch the sloppy routing.

Now to sand out any rough spots.

Tom's Ukulele, Neck shaping

After stuffing myself full of a Pop's beef sammich, I went back out into the garage and shaped the neck.  I alternated between cabinet makers rasps, and a round and half round file.  After sanding and hitting it with some 0000 steel wool, I'm happy with the shape, but see a few spots that need additional sanding.  Some of that I'll have to wait until after cutting the headstock to do.  As soon as the tuners arrive in the mail, I'll take care of all that.  Aside from that, its all ready to join up as soon as I can get to the city to pick up my bindings that are sitting in the back room at Specimen.

For now, here's some pics.

Neck carving

So I decided to take a break from carving the body, the planes were killin my hands, and I decided since there was still 2.5 hours left to work on the neck. I'll just post all the pics of the progress since I've already detailed before how I do it.