Having roughed in the neck shape, now that the fretboard is on and the neck is fretted, we needed to finish shaping the neck... this time bringing it down to specified contours using a template (in the pic). Another many - stepped process involving files and scrapers and sandpaper of various grits.
I do love the neck-shaping part of instrument building. I noticed this when doing the octave mandolin too. This is the part where the player meets the instrument... how it feels in the hand is critical, and so it's a lot of fun to develop that shape.
Also glued in the nut and roughed it into approximate shape to be refined later.
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