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An office program with a spread sheet. I use Open Office. It’s free.

A soft plastic ruler that you can easily read. 

Disclaimer. I’m on a mac. Mac has weird ideas on where things should be. They call it “Intuitive”. I’ve learned that you have to stick your head up your backside. Then run in circles until you hit something hard enough to knock yourself out to understand what they mean by “Intuitive”. So this means that I wont be able to tell you “to do this you go here, click on a drop down menu….”. I’m going to resort to the ‘find this. it should be.’ for you people on a real computer. One that doesn't rely on psychic abilities. 

Let’s start. 

Your planned guitar shape should be large enough to about fill the piece of paper. You can work with smaller drawing. But the smaller it is the more pixilation and distortion you will have along the lines. Make sure you have a clean drawing. No extra pencil lines or a lot of eraser marks.  The larger and cleaner your plan the less pixilation and blurred lines you will have. Make sure you have the neck at the body sized the way you want it to look on your guitar. You will use this to size your plan perfectly. You don't need the entire neck. Just where it's at on the body. 

Scan your plan to your desktop. If needed drag and drop your plan into a photo program so you can crop or cut away the plan till your shape is very close to or right at the edges. Save or drag and drop this new sized plan to your desktop. 

Open your office program and choose spreadsheet. Drag your plan onto the spreadsheet. Keep the plan right at the top left corner. Most likely you will have to find where you can change the view size to see the entire plan. Now you need to find a few tools in your spreadsheet to help resize and view your print out.

Before going to this next step. Make sure you choose to see the plan at 100%. Even if you cant see your entire plan. The most important part is where the neck goes and how wide it is . Make sure you can see that.

First find where you can resize the picture. Or it may be called graphic or object depending on the program you use. You may have to click on your plan to find it. On my mac it's the format dropdown menu. Try right clicking on your plan. You might get a menu with this option. You should have the ability to change the plans hight and width. And have an option to keep it’s ratio. VERY IMPORTANT. Make sure you turn on keep ratio. This will allow you to change either the hight or width wile maintaining the shape of your plan. Don’t try resizing the plan with your mouse. If you want to widen or stretch the plan do this after you do the next step.

Here’s the messy bits. Use the program to resize the plan until you get the exact measurements of your neck size. Use that soft plastic ruler each time you resize. Yep, one the screen. As long as your view is set to 100% you should get an accurate measurement.

Next messy step. Somewhere in your program there should be a page preview. Try File or Edit’s drop down menus. Click it. Now you will only see what each piece of paper is going to look like once printed. Make sure your page preview is set to 100% sizing. Now scroll through these separate pages. On my mac I have to use the up and down arrows. Find the page with with your neck. Print just that page. If this is on two pages go back and move the plan so you see this on only one. Then go back and print that page. Remeasure your neck size. If all is good you have a perfect sized plan ready to be printed out. Cut apart and puzzled together so each edge is lining up. 

If you had to move your plan to get a full picture of your neck's size just move it back to the top left corner. Then print.

Edit on April 30.

To avoid having problems lining up the pattern make a grid of lines on your drawing. They really don't have to be straight. Just something to help line up the separate sheets of paper once printed. I had a rough time of it on this first one.