Bass Neck Jig

[BassmanJames]

Hi all,

I'm looking for ideas on how to make a jig for shaping a bass neck. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[WezV]

more info needed.

what exactly do you want the jig to do. Do you just want a template for the shape of a neck from the front or are you on about geting a jig to help carve the neck

[Jon]

My neck jig of choice.

[Prostheta]

If it's for tapering the neck from nut to the end of fingerboard, then a calculator, ruler, pencil, clamps, router and a good straight piece of wood does the trick. If it's to achieve the shaping on the back of the neck, then i'm afraid you can't do much other than buying a table router and a LARGE roundover bit, and even then that's just to get you in the ballpark. From thereonin, it's the buttscratcher pictured above!

[GregP]

From thereonin, it's the buttscratcher pictured above!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OiN8Lx5Ll-w

Sorry. Had to.

[Jon]

I do not condone the use of this tool as a buttscratcher. You could make hashbrowns with it, though!

[BassmanJames]

Thanks all. Yeah, I figured shaping it by hand would be about the best way to go. I'm in the planning stages of a neck through body bass. I thought someone might have used a jig for this is all. I appreciate the replies. If any of you are interested, I found this guy while looking for info on the subject. Check it out.

http://www.geocities.com/philmailloux/

Thanks again.

[tim_ado]

phils a member here on the forum try PMing him

[BassmanJames]

phils a member here on the forum try PMing him

Cool, thanks. I'll do that!!! Nice to meet people who are not out to knock someone down for having an idea or asking a question. Thanks again. And I actually e-mailed him from his site. No reply yet.

[WezV]

here is a neck carving jig from a very well respected member around these parts:

myka neck carving jig

I dont know how much wood working experience you have but for most people i would recommend starting with a rasp - david's jig is brilliant but possibly not the best thing for a beginner - David will have carved a hell of a lot of necks by hand before making that jig and i am fairly sure that he will still do a lot of hand carving and finalising of neck shapes after he is done with the jig as well.

[Xanthus]

Thanks for that link, Wez! I might even do some sort of similar jig for the neck on my next guitar. I'm thinking, though, that a roundover bit of that size wouldn't make for a comfortable neck at all. Maybe I'll just use it to "hog out" the bulk of the wood, as it were. If anything, it'd save a bunch of time, and you'd get straight to the finer sanding/rasping. I'm looking forward to breaking in my new rasp set