Neck reshaping...
Found out one more thing to do while babysitting - reshaping necks!
I have this Flying-V that was custom built by yours truly and a luthier, but I never was happy with the neck shape really. A wide U shape just felt too thick.
So...I went ahead and sanded the neck upside to a sharp V, i.e. so that instead of the fretboard and such start off at 90 degree angle, now the 'slope' starts already at the fretboard. Pretty much like a straight line from the edge of the fretboard to the middle of the neck back. I left the lower side intact.
I just love this type completely asymmetrical necks. When you have a thick U in the lower side it fills the hand SO nicely and isn't tiring but since the upside is carved very much more, the thumb rests very close to the strings in the playing position, so that overall the feel is like of an extremely thin neck.
All my necks are now V; two of them are rather normal V shapes, 19mm thick at most and V both sides, and one is extra thin V, something like 15mm only for the whole thickness and V only on the upper side (fastest neck I ever played but too thin overall in live playing, tiring for the hand) and now this totally asymmetrical V/U shape.
If I had realized how good it is to play a V shape neck or especially asymmetrical V, man, I would have developed into so much better a player.
The pic of course exaggerates some, but the general idea:
Dee
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Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.