For this neck I just used my newly acquired surform, a spoke shave, and a scraper. Those surforms just power through wood. The carve went remarkable quick because of it. So quick in fact that I'm a little disappointed because I enjoy this part so much. Start to finish it too about 2.5 hours.
I'm having second thoughts on the pickups and hardware for this. My original plan was to use zebra pickups but I'm having a problem matching the cream parts consistently and its frustrating the hell out of me.
I really liked the bridge I used on the last two builds so I'm also thinking about using another Schroeder in place of the TOM. I think the only reason I was going to use a TOM was to save a few bucks which is kind of silly in the grand scheme of things. The problem is they are out of stock on the chrome version for at least another six weeks. But they do have nickel in stock so I'm thinking of doing everything in nickel now. This means ditching the chrome gotoh's I was going to use because they dont come in nickel. I don't want to use Grovers so I'm leaning towards nickel Sperzel's along with nickel covered Duncans unless any of you know of any other decent tuners that are offered in nickel. I've searched high and low and there doesn't seem to be many options in nickel sealed tuners.
Anyways that way I'll get my Schroeder bridge without having to wait six weeks and I only have to match my pickup rings and not the rings and bobbins. And before anyone brings it up I dont want to use a pigtail.
I also need a little input. I'm about ready to glue the neck so I can I finish the heel transition. Being that this is my first set neck should I partially grain fill the neck and body before gluing or just do it all at one time after I glue the neck and finish the transition?
JW