This is my first post, so hi! I've been exploring this website for about 4 months and have decided to make my first guitar. It will be a seven-string neck-through. Due to not being able to find much other good wood in my area, I started out building the neck with what is basically a perfectly planed oak 2 by 4, 48 inches long (flat sawn). After taking it home, I found that it had very slight bow, extremely hard to see without a light from behind it. I selected to cut the side that would make it have a back-bow. I made the side cuts, and had no noticeable changes in the bow of the wood. I made the back cut and headstock cut, and rounded the neck, and checked again for bow. Now, the neck bows back a hair over 1/8 (5/32)..... My fingerboard, frets, truss rod, and some other stuff should be coming soon, and I don't know how to correct this bow. I'm new to this (this is my first guitar), so I don't know if this is a lot of bow or not.
Here's a pic.
Do I need to correct this and if so, how?
I figure that the bow may be due to the grain being a little wavy, but it's wavy along the front, not the side..
I'm sorry if this has been answered somewhere else before, but I tried the search function and couldn't find much.
Thanks!