I carve the neck of my guitars by hand. Squaring the stock and tapering both the thickness and the width before carving the profile is necessary to ensure a correct geometry. And gives the material a bit of time to release internal stress, to make small corrections, if necessary. It takes a lot of time, but I believe that using hand tools before moving to CNC is giving me an invaluable feel of what is important, and how. And yes: “everything is important”, as usual. 😊
