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Documenting the building of the new Froggy Bottom model SJ --- First post: January 25, 2008

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Mar 03
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The headstock is scraped with a cabinet scrapers to  level the binding. The final carving of the transition area from headstock to the running stock of the neck is then hand carved with a paring chisel and sanded.The neck is now ready for the precise fitting of the neck to the body of the guitar. Size, shape and mass of the bridge can have tremendous influence on the sound and performance of the guitar and  this is the stage which assures that the playability of the guitar is exactly what is required.
The headstock is scraped with a cabinet scrapers to  level the binding. The final carving of the transition area from headstock to the running stock of the neck is then hand carved with a paring chisel and sanded.

The neck is now ready for the precise fitting of the neck to the body of the guitar. Size, shape and mass of the bridge can have tremendous influence on the sound and performance of the guitar and  this is the stage which assures that the playability of the guitar is exactly what is required.