I have spent a number of days re-making bending and building forms. Why? I changed the body shape slightly. I used to have the neck area, where the neck attaches, flat. Originally this made the neck easier to fit, but with new jigs and techniques having a rounded neck area is just as easy as flat, and I like the look of a more rounded instrument.
Radiused end blocks. To go along with the rounder instrument outline, I have made the head and tail block areas of known radii, so I can cut blocks of just the right radius. Since I have the jig out, may as well make a bunch in different woods. I like to use darker blocks with darker sides/back and lighter colored blocks with lighter colored sides/back. This collection should last me a while! Because of the difference radii across the different instrument sizes I stacked them where they will go so I could make an evenly distributed bunch.
