Neck work:

I put my attention to turning the Neanderthal club into a neck.  I had seen and read about the Strandberg "Endure" neck profile before, but had not had the pleasure of sculpting one yet.  A $45 license from Strandberg is required, and may have been purchased for the neck, maybe not; Mr. X had never seen one.  I could only hope that Strandberg had record of a purchase by JLH, and would let me have the plans free of charge.  I wrote them an email, with some pictures, and mentioned that JLH may, or may not have obtained a license, and Ola Strandberg himself (the inventor) got back to me.  He did not bother looking up JLH's license, and told me that any which way, he did not want his name on "That thing".  He took a look at my web site (This one), gave me his blessing, and attached the CAD Files.  I thank him very much for that.

I looked through the drawings and re-did the maths so that it would layout to the size of the neck.  I started with adjusting the thickness of the neck, and got really lucky too, because it was just slightly to thick near the heel, and way to thick near the headstock, giving me something to work with.  I laid out the slightly twisted trapezoid contour with masking tape, and carved the neck to shape.  JLH was way off to put it mildly, but in being lazy left enough meat for me to correct it to specification.

Next I got to work on the heel, here are a few "Before" views.  The glossy spot on the left in the bottom picture, is a mixture of rosewood dust packed into a worm hole, with super glue as a filler.  There were a few other spots where filling holes was necessary.

Below is the heel after carving it to conform to the neck pocket in the body, and after some rough sanding.  Notice the "Red Eye" in the top left picture: Although it may be seen as an imperfection in the rosewood, I kind of like it.

Look at the "Before" of the headstock:

In the "After" shots, it is apparent how a little bit of artistic elegance can go a long way:

Here a couple of views of the whole neck with most of its new contours, still only rough sanded.  Later I did some more sculpting to the rest of the headstock, as it too was rough and unrefined.