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And - no @rockpile99 - I wasn't being sarcastic - I'd genuinely never considered making a sacrificial neck blank!!

@jamesbisset It's on its way!

@rockpile99 I laminated poplar for a neck from a futon couch/bed frame. Pretty solid. Watch out for the knots in pine. They tend to fall out when tou hit it with the rasp.

I have just made, for practice, a bolt on Tele neck out of a nasty bit of pine. I even Routed the truss rod channel, then cut a 8mm slice off another piece of nasty pine and made a fret board, radiused it and glued them together as I will for real. Once the glue had dried I carved and shaped and made a good first attempt at a neck, I’m pleased with and it proves the theories etc.