{"id":163,"date":"2008-08-03T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-09-05T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:40:52","slug":"shaping-the-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/shaping-the-neck","title":{"rendered":"Shaping the neck"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\"Trimming<\/a><\/p>\n

The neck is shaped to the players preferred shape.\u00a0 There are different widths of necks, as well as thicknesses and shapes.\u00a0 Some players prefer a very thick, beefy neck, while others prefer a very light, slim neck.\u00a0 First, the neck is trimmed flush with the fretboard with a router and flush cutting bit.<\/p>\n

\"Shaping<\/p>\n

The neck is preliminarily shaped with a quarter round shaping bit on the router table.\u00a0 Then, the bouzouki is placed on the neck shaping jig, and the final shaping is done with rasps and spokeshaves, aided by a neck template.<\/p>\n

\"Sanding<\/p>\n

Final shaping of the neck is done with a sanding block rolled over the neck from side to side to eliminate any high spots and smooth out the contours.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Sanding<\/p>\n

Final sanding is done with sandpaper strips.<\/p>\n

\"Neck<\/p>\n

Finally, the neck cap is added to the body at the neck joint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The neck is shaped to the players preferred shape.\u00a0 There are different widths of necks, as well as thicknesses and shapes.\u00a0 Some players prefer a very thick, beefy neck, while others prefer a very light, slim neck.\u00a0 First, the neck is trimmed flush with the fretboard with a router and flush cutting bit. The neck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-katherines-bouzouki","tag-greek-bouzouki-construction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kacoyannakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}