Restoration and repair
Copying a neck
for restoration
and repair.
An hour and a half on reproducing an existing neck accurately enough that the replacement feels like the original. Essential for restoration work, and a useful skill in its own right.
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What this covers
- Capturing an existing neck profile accurately
- Recording the dimensions that matter and ignoring the ones that do not
- Transferring the geometry to a new blank
- Matching the heel and pocket so it drops into the original body
Why this is harder than it looks
A neck is a compound shape that changes continuously along its length. Copying it means capturing a profile at several stations and understanding how they transition, not measuring one cross-section and extruding it.
Written companion in progress.
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