Um, if you have your guitar neck shaved, then regret it, it'll just grow back, right?And Bonnie, about the minor surgery thing... I vividly remember when my insane fiddle teacher was on a one-day crusade against the little wooden squares that many fiddles have glued onto the inner back seam to reinforce the seam - and decided that mine needed to come out. He slid a chisel into my fiddle's f-hole, holding it where the little square met the back, and he wanted me to whack on the chisel with a piece of a two-by-four.
Just say no, Marion