| I would suspect that different builders have different methods that they prefer to do the neck access area on a single cut bass.
I like to work with hand tools as much as possible, and therefore I do mine using a nice, sharp chisel and a mallet to start.
First, I cut the rear neck profile out on a bandsaw, including the neck heel. Then I glue the body wings on, and then bring the shape of the body wings in line with the neck heel using the chisel and mallet approach.
Once I have the basic shape down and fairly leveled out, I use a spindle sanding attachment on a simple hand drill to do the final roughing out. From there I finish it off by hand with sanding blocks and starting at around 80 grit paper on up until I'm happy with the final shape and contour.
I highly suspect that some of the bigger shops that produce more basses than me probably have some type of jig with an overhead router or CNC machine that does the initial rough carving out of this area. My process can be time consuming, but I'm a small shop and again, I prefer working with my hands as much as possible.
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-Grandon-
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