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For a spokeshave for shaping the neck, I'm thinking something from Lee Valley. I wonder if a straight blade or a concave blade would be best? And what about rasps? StewMac makes som interesting rasps. Thanks,
Steve

both can be good tools for shaping necks.

I have the Veritas spokeshave and the $20. cheapo Stanley.
After some fettling, the Stanley provides maybe 75% of the functionality of the Veritas.

Since I discovered Microplanes, my rasps see little use except this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Shinto-Planer-Saw ... 940&sr=1-2

tommy

I used the Veritas to rough out my neck, but I gotta say my favorite tool afterwards are the Dragon rasps from StewMac. Awesome.

Mark

I swear by the veritas spoke shave. I use the flat blade. But honestly, if it's a "one or the other" type of thing, get a good (GOOD) rasp. You can do the entire job with a rasp with out much complaint from your body, but if you do most of the job with a spoke shave, and the rest of it with sand paper, it might be a different story.

I use the spoke shave to rough it in. It does take a learning curve to be able to get real close, but that's why the rasp is so handy afterwards. I set my thickness at the 3rd fret, and the 9th fret or so, with the rasp, and then connect those to points with the spoke shave and get somewhat close. Blend with rasp. Then use the short fret leveling bar from stewmac, to level everything out.

-Dan

I use a small Spokeshave I made from the LV kit. http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.a ... at=1,50230 Fun project and the blade (Hock?) takes and holds a verrry sharp edge.

I use my flat soled shave for most of my neck shaping.