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Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on October 30, 2010 at 3:40am

Sorry, they were suppossed to be embedded. I'll come back to this!

Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on October 31, 2010 at 4:28am

Some tips for layout and preliminary neck shaping

Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on October 31, 2010 at 4:30am

Profiling and further refining the necks shape

Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on October 31, 2010 at 4:31am

Carving and finalizing the shape

Permalink Reply by carverman on November 15, 2010 at 2:08am

I love spanish cedar. it is has a beautiful fragrance and a joy to carve or machine. I've made
a Les paul neck through using spanish cedar and a spoke shave like in your video.
Now I want to make a flying V tenor uke and that will be another challenge as I have to
cut the fret slots myself using the S-M fret calculator. I found some info online about
tenor ukes and would like to confirm the scale length.



Mark Bliss said:

Carving and finalizing the shape

Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on November 15, 2010 at 7:59am

Just to be clear, those arent "my" videos, I just felt they were a good overview of one method of roughing out and shaping necks. I am hoping to provide some tips on another alternative to this method soon.
Good luck on your uke project, I look foward to seeing your progress!

Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on February 12, 2011 at 9:50am

Heres an additional video I wanted to add:

Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on July 25, 2011 at 6:42pm

Idea for cutting the scarf joint on a table saw.