The necks are mahogany -- and because mahogany is getting harder to find in big chunks, our neck blanks are made from smaller chunks, sandwiched with some pieces of maple. The result, as you see, is that stripe down the middle, called a "stringer". Personally, I think it looks pretty cool. So the wood sandwich is made, the block is cut down to the right size and then the neck blanks (still very oversized) are bandsawed out of them... and here is mine on my bench.
There are MANY steps involved in going from this neck blank to the neck's final form. We've been doing a bunch of them in a flurry all at once, so I'll explain some of them, but might miss some too... but hopefully you'll get the idea.
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