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Here a little thing I cobbled together after a thing they had at Larrivee. Should have done it 15 years ago, but oh well.

Basically, it just holds a laminate trimmer keyed into the truss rod slot for indexing. It has a 3/8" ball nose bit. There is a little bit of wiggle in it intentionally, as the fat end is 3/8" exactly, so the wiggle room let you get a slightly wider than 3/8 pocket. Leaves a nice clean cut, though I expect this would be better served with a downshear spiral, but for now..,

with neck in place..gadget
indexed into the slot
zing zing
clean
fits!

That's nice.

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Thanks. Also turns two steps into one. I used to gouge the neck end out with chisels, and then route the body with a template and collar. This condenses it into one faster step, and it looks better, not that anyone sees there.

Good stuff Ed!

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