Ordinarily, I'm very anti-headstock-reshaping, but in this case, the neck had been stained and oversanded, in addition to some sort of hippie woodburning project:
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First, I tried to sand off as much of the offending stain as I could. It had been stained both black AND red in the past. The neck actually ended up becoming a bit "V" shaped from the sanding!
Here are some pictures of getting the back of the headstock flat - the pencil marks are so I could see my progress.
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I've wanted to try out a Saf-T-Planer as a way to avoid sanding, to get the thickness of the headstock down to a pre-CBS dimension. It was difficult to keep the cuts even on such a small piece of wood!!
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The tuner holes needed to be plugged too
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I did a rubbing to get the outline from the headstock of a 22.5" scale neck
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I've heard that a CBS headstock can't be turned into a 50's size headstock, but there is actually enough material there
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Here it is, all done (with a non-appropriate decal from a later Duo-Sonic!)
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