Tele Neck on a Jazzmaster

[capnjames_]

Any tips or suggestions for either rounding out a tele neck heel or squaring up a strat style neck pocket? (to get a tele neck on my jazzmaster body)

I’ve also seen the universal strat/tele mouse ear shaped pocket, and it seems people have had success with that, but what tools would you suggest for carving those mouse ears into the strat pocket?

All I have is a cheap dremel and sandpaper, but I don’t mind sitting there all day hand sanding the square tele neck heel little by little until it fits into the round pocket if that will work, but I just need some pointers for where I should start

 

[guitarbuilder]

A strat neck heel is a 5" radius. I'd get a paper template glued on there and then saw/file/sand until it fits. The radii at the edges are 1/2" d like a tele. There isn't that much to remove in my opinion, but I'd saw some off outside the line of what you want to end up with.

 

[capnjames_]

and how do I sand the square into a 5” radius

 

[guitarbuilder]

Cut out and glue on the paper template. I'd use glue stick. You can print out a PDF drawing similar to above. That one is from electricherald.com. You will see the exposed wood that needs to come off. Then saw a little. Get a file and file a little, and finally sand a little. You want the surface perpendicular to the bottom of the heel. You could also print out a tele heel and compare the two. If you had a belt sander, that would be helpful too.

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