Telling 😂 not telling 

Also wait a minute 🤣🤣🤣 yeah that’s fair actually 

If you set out in the expectation that you'll ever get to the end, then you'll always be disappointed because you can never get there.

@tv101 Exactly that. 👍 

@cheeswhisk Lower your expectations. 🤣 

No seriously, practice makes perfect so just take your time and make a guitar. Don’t try and build the perfect guitar, just build a guitar. That will be your baseline to work from going forward, then you can look back after you have made a few and you see how far you have come. 
Nobody is perfect at making guitars, it’s just about experience and skill building. 

Go enjoy a few beers and a BBQ in the nice weather, I might do the same. 👍

I think I’m going to light the BBQ and open a beer and tomorrow instal the truss rod and fretboard.

That’s a great idea @cheesewhisk! Tomorrow you’ll be fresh (well, depending on how many beers you drink that is) and in a better frame of mind to concentrate on the next phase.

Have a great one! 🍻

@cheesewhisk

Is a guitar making video game a possibility. Virtual reality might help us to get all the mistakes out of the way.

Is a guitar making video game a possibility

I can just it see now, a long haired guy disappearing in a cloud of sanding dust while an unseen female voice tells him put his mask on 🙂

An augmented reality (AR) video application would be good too. It would combine “how to” videos with real world application for building a guitar. 

The video below is nothing to do with guitars but it shows the application of AR in an industrial setting. For the worker/operator, information in many forms is in your vision all of the time, in a semi transparent way. So you can see the information and you can see what you are doing. If any of the in-vision information is distracting or in the way, you can simply drag it out of the way or close/minimise it. I touched on this stuff when doing my degree, it’s interesting stuff. 

@robin

Top prize would be to reach the Carol Cam

@boo

Thanks for sharing the video it’s brilliant. It’s on another level to what was thinking and I can imagine it would cost a lot to make.

Too much for my small brain @boo. 🤯😬 

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Just to echo what everyone else has said; Don't be hard on yourself and don't let mistakes get you get you down - shrug them off and take the 'learning opportunity'. Think about all the various skills and knowledge required to make a guitar e.g. carpentry, electronics, painting, maths, & metalwork - all of which we're 'learning on the job'. Quite frankly we should all get medals just for even attempting it. The next time you do this you'll have the confidence of knowing which way will work best.

When using my router I always try and remember to treat it like a firearm or powerful car i.e. over confidence leads to messy cock ups 😀 

PS - Don't tell Mark, but I've never had super glue & masking tape slip on me.

PS - Don't tell Mark, but I've never had super glue & masking tape slip on me.

I put too much superglue on once.

It flooded out over the masking tape, and successfully bonded the two pieces together very well.

Didn't use it a second time @rockpile99

Think about all the various skills and knowledge required to make a guitar e.g. carpentry, electronics, painting, maths, & metalwork

@rockpile99 You use maths? 😳 

That video is amazing.

There's a build a pc video game so I don't see why there couldn't be a 'Guitar Making' video game