I apologise if this is a recent subject..I just got here.

I want to scallop my fender classic 70's maple strat neck. I cant find a local tech who'll touch it so it's down to me. The questions i have are:

1) If i scallop just the higher side of the fret board, (gradually tapering up to the lower side where there would be almost no scallop), am I looking at warping problems?

2) Should I loosen the truss rod before I start?

I know some guitarists think scalloping is a waste of time, but i am a convert having played for several years on a yjm strat.

On the yjm the scallops are even all the way across the frets, however because of the side dot markers (which I understand go in about 6mm) I cannot scallop deep on the dot marker side of the neck. So I thought I would taper the scallops.

Has anyone ever done this? Know any cool sites with a step by step guide on this stuff?

Thanks for any help. :)