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once an instrument’s sides are shaped and the parts have been created, it goes through a build, bind and scrape-out process to seal the end grain, closing up the instrument to give us a solid raw body. this is where all the body pieces begin to fit precisely together.
once the sides are bound to the top, the body will sit, secured with tape, overnight. the following day, the tape is removed. then we carefully scrape and sand the entire instrument to a final, raw finish. we then give the instrument a final inspection before it is allowed to move on to the next department.
in the neck department, every neck is 