I got both pieces from two different sources on e-bay. The neck was about 22 dollars and the kiln dried ash blank was 15.
I cut the head stock with a jigsaw and sanded it with a sanding block and finished it off with one of those sanding sponges.
I intended to cut out the neck pocket first, so there was some wood around it to support the router, then I would cut out the rest. The router broke, so I jury rigged it, then the bit slipped and routed a channel too deep. So, the fix is to copy the outline to the other side of the block, backwards, so now my mistake is in the portion that will be discarded. I'm off to Lowe's for a new router. Ugh...
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