Hi everyone! I put together the Explorer-like in mock up …. Nothing is bolted down in the mock up, but I’ve subsequently checked and drilled mo...

@nsj yeah, I’m not sure what happened. I was planning to do exactly that, but then didn’t 🙄 🤔

So, finally mocked up the Floyd Rose rout (note tactical use of screwdriver as there is no string tension to keep the bridge level. I’ll try to get th...

yep, I picked up a router template set, so that should help, but never underestimate the level of my ineptitude 😉 Thank you for the pointer as far...

@swepri thank you for your suggestion. I really don’t know why I didn’t think of that myself! My old garden bench is in the workshop waiting to be up ...

@russ thank you - that’s all the encouragement I need 😋

Explorer bodies take a lot of wood! Given that I’ve never made a body with rout for a trem system, FR or otherwise, I guessed that the chances of me m...

let’s see how this turns out …..

@nsj I wonder whether that’s it. I mean, on the one hand, I’m paranoid about the possibility of the router tipping and leaving those tell-tale grooves...

@nsj well, I wondered about the bearing, but it spins freely by hand, and I used it afterwards on the other side of the neck without problem. The ne...

Hi everyone, so, an update. Sorry it’s taken a little while, but I’ve been on holiday. Firstl, it looks like my first assessment of what had happe...

Now, that’s an interesting idea! I’ll certainly have a play with that and let you know how it works out - thank you!

Thank you for the suggestion about the neck depth. I had already cut the neck to depth, so that’s probably not going to go. I think I will take one...

Thanks Koen - ever the source of sage advice 🤣

@koendb and by the way, I forgot to mention in my reply - that’s a really nice looking, very classic Flying V, I love it!

Thanks @boo, for your many wise words 😀 It certainly is part if the fun to fix the problems that arise as well as to solve challenges - most of my ...

@koendb doing the sums is easy enough, but i wanted a visual representation, and I hadn’t found one online. The fretfind2d one looks great though - th...