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Is building a neck without an electric planer useless?
- Thread starter bassbrizzle
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I don't even have a planer. All joints were prepared by table saw. After sawing, I stuck adhesive backed sanding discs to the saw table and sanded everything smooth and flat. Seems to have worked out ok.
This thread just goes to show you that with enough ingenuity, you can build a guitar/bass in almost any manner.
lowsound
lowsound
If you're asking about mine, one is all cherry and the other is maple with bloodwood.
Cherry works nice. Not too awful hard, probably a bit softer than maple, and I don't remember the grain wanting to split or anything bad like that. It did have some small voids, which is common from what I've read, and it happened to have a large void that I discovered very close to what became the headstock joint. If it had been another 1/8" deeper the neck would have been scrap. So I would say there is some risk involved when working with cherry. Here is what it looked like raw when I was sawing out pieces looking for clear wood. The bandsaw cuts are black because I built the bass in a metal working shop and the blade was dirty from cutting aluminum.
In addition to all that was said earlier in the thread, there's always the option of contacting a local cabinet maker or wood shop - if you ask, they'll probably plane it for a few dollars.
I don't have an electric planer I am not a pro, I don't think I can justfy the price tag for one. n
But I do own few hand planes they are wonderful specially a, good qualty like Nielsen they will surprise you how usefull and fast they are, I paid $95 for my nielsen blocs plane And i use it 90% of the time, ADN like $20 for my ole stanleys, but like theta said héroe biforme me, i siendo some time and money sharpping tema and según, not so much for the nielsen, but sharpping ten id ley....
But I do own few hand planes they are wonderful specially a, good qualty like Nielsen they will surprise you how usefull and fast they are, I paid $95 for my nielsen blocs plane And i use it 90% of the time, ADN like $20 for my ole stanleys, but like theta said héroe biforme me, i siendo some time and money sharpping tema and según, not so much for the nielsen, but sharpping ten id ley....
