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I heavily re-scalloped an early 62 RI Japanese Rosewood Strat neck (Before you have a go, it was already badly scalloped) I had to go a bit deeper than I wanted as the original scallop was Blackmore style and very deep and badly done behind the frets, basically cut, to nothing done in front of the next. So all the fret dots came out, save the 15, 17, 19, 21 ones. I did it by eye. to tried to keep the 7.25" radius, if only so I didn't go through the board.
It turned out well and was pretty easy, taped off frets and used a couple of standard large round files (The kind you get in a standard large metal 6 piece filing kit) and finished off with decreasing grade sandpaper and round files and the wire wool and lemon oil. Didn't take very long, Rosewood and Maple is a lot like soft metal.
Keep your eye on the smaller round file and the larger round file basically does the larger areas lower down the board by itself.
Made a nice job of that. My scallops were really only that deep, but the fret dots were only a few mm deep and filed out, mind you the truss rod is quite shallow on them Fender ones, so I suppose shallow fret dots make sense.
I think I want to try that on a 70's Allparts neck and do a similar Malmsteen, so much more aesthetic than Blackmore. lol.
Also I can't be totally sure, but I may have used the curved rasp from the file set to get most of the meat out the way, in fact, as I remember, I think that is what I did. The set, which I carry to sharpen hedge trimmers has two rasps, flat and curved, a curved file, a round file and a square and flat file.
So it was curved rasp, curved file and round file, fairly non technical.
Scalloped necks feel good.