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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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I had the same issue with a Guitarbuild body a year or so ago. The neck pocket was 55mm at the wide end but my neck width was 56mm. The advice I got was to use a router to increase the pocket width but although I have used routers very often I didn’t feel confident to remove such a very small amount with one so I opted to sand the pocket sides. To keep the sides square I used a 22cm long piece of timber 48mm wide by 20mm thick with its end corners rounded 6mm radius. I then stuck* course sandpaper to one long edge and medium sandpaper to the opposite long edge. The two sandpaper’s continued around the 6mm radii. Then laying the timber on its 48mm wide face in the neck pocket I was able to work it to-and-fro along the pocket edge, keeping even pressure on the timber to ensure the side of the pocket did not become curved.
That worked perfectly for the upper side of the pocket. The lower side is too short for that method so I trimmed it with a sharp chisel and then wrapped sandpaper around a pencil to adjust the pocket’s radiused end.
* if I remember rightly I used double-sided tape to stick the sandpaper to the 20mm sides.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein