Starting with the scroll

Bit of a jump from last time. I cut out the neck from the block and don't seem to have taken any photos of it. I don't have a band saw or anything like that. Since there was a lot of material to remove I actually made a plywood template of the neck profile and used my router with a trim bit to slowly cut out the neck. It worked surprisingly well.

I had a lot of trouble getting the dimension for the scroll and the neck. This seems to be one of the parts which doesn't scale linearly with the size of the cello. The only example I have is my son's 1/4 cello which is some dimensions is actually fairly close to this 1/2 cello. The scroll is actually almost the same width as one on a full size cello. Otherwise it is scaled with the body size, more or less. So that is also what I decided to do. I took the scroll template and scaled it with 86.8 % length wise but only 95 % in the width. This then matches with the pegbox outer width of 44 mm. After having marked the centreline for the neck I transferred the scroll outline on the neck. I then made some saw lines across the pegbox to make the chiseling easier. I wasn't careful enough with my saw work and accidentally went a little too deep in a few places. I think I will be able to remove those by rounding the edges of the pegbox a little.