As you've said before, these are all great learning experiences.......and in your case teaching experiences.

@russ This is why we record everything here, all the good thing and all the bad things that go on in building guitars. It’s a learning platform and nobody would learn anything if nobody showed how they fixed things as they go along. Nobody builds guitars without making mistakes, it’s virtually impossible. Also, teaching is one of the best forms of learning too, for me, it reinforces the knowledge as well as it being passed on to others. So, everyone benefits, as long as the information and fix is true and sound of course. 🤣

Great repair job @boo. 

🙂🎶🎸🙏

Blood, sweat and tears right? 
In my defence, I normally have someone that looks after me. 🤣

Here is my latest blood. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Top tip of the day: When you have clamped a metal radius block in your vice, don’t bend down to pick something up from the floor and smack you head into the sharp corner of the block and leave a Y shaped dent in your head. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 

I got my wife to clean it with TCP. 

Ouch @boo. 😕

Ouch

@russ Yep, I put everything into making these guitars. 🤣👍🎸

That's like a special guitar-makers mark @Boo.

You could start a trend ... 

That was a nice save job on the neck/fretboard.

Presumably the bit that you used to fill-in the sanded-hollow was thin enough that you could just push bend it to the shape of the hollow?

That's like a special guitar-makers mark @Boo.

You could start a trend ... 

@tv101 I wouldn’t encourage it but it would be rather amusing if that was a tell tail sign of a guitar maker. It’s a specific shape of a particular tool used for guitar making so let this be my makers mark. It’s a way of all recognising each other if we can ever get to meet up in a pub anywhere. 🤣

That was a nice save job on the neck/fretboard.

Presumably the bit that you used to fill-in the sanded-hollow was thin enough that you could just push bend it to the shape of the hollow?

@tv101 Yeah that’s it although I nearly stuck my fingers to it at the same time. That reminds me, I need to buy some CA glue solvent. 

I bought a couple of bottles of debonder @Boo, after Mark stuck his fingers to his face with superglue, and I spilt a load over my fingers when I was fixing kitchen cupboard plinths last week!

Of course, the debonder is now in my workshop.

If I'd stuck my fingers to the kitchen plinths, I wouldn't have been able to reach the debonder (and my wife was away at the time).  That made me think.  From now on, it'll be a case of "wherever the superglue goes, there goes the debonder too"!

Of course, the debonder is now in my workshop.

If I'd stuck my fingers to the kitchen plinths, I wouldn't have been able to reach the debonder (and my wife was away at the time).  That made me think.  From now on, it'll be a case of "wherever the superglue goes, there goes the debonder too"!

@tv101 It’s a funny image isn’t it but I really isn’t funny at all. You would have had to have ripped the plinth off to get some help. 

I think I’ll order some now. Good call. 👍

@tv101 I used some 3mm ish thick wood off cut that I got from Mark a while back (available here in the shop to buy) and rough cut it shape before gluing it on and sanding it to conform with the shape. This wood was flexible enough to bend into position until the glue set. I also filled in any gaps and hole with some of the sawdust and more CA. 

@boo

Here is my latest blood

Oh, that does look sore, but the job is never done until there is blood. My new workbench got it's first splash of blood today too, little fiddly electrical screws and little fiddly screwdriver and soft fingers. It always amazes me how much blood can come out a tiny cut in a finger.

Oh, that does look sore, but the job is never done until there is blood. My new workbench got it's first splash of blood today too, little fiddly electrical screws and little fiddly screwdriver and soft fingers. It always amazes me how much blood can come out a tiny cut in a finger.

@robin It does look sore but strangely it isn’t. There was an initial bit of pain when I first did it but that soon went and there was only a tiny amount of blood. No pain during cleanup and there still isn’t. Where there is no sense, there is no pain. 🤣 

Yeah I’ve stabbed myself with screwdrivers before, cut myself on sharp car body panels and the list goes on. Doing stuff is dangerous isn’t it? 🤣

@boo

Yeah, nice one! Great job dude!

Oh, and the repair was pretty good too.

Checked the alignment of the neck today by clamping the neck in place, putting the bridge on, a couple of tuners and a nut. Everything is bang on so I could glue the neck in. However, there are a couple of jobs on the neck I haven’t done yet and it will be much easier to do them with the neck off. Can you spot what they are? 
Yep, the inlays and the frets, so I’ve got a lot of work to do first before I’ll glue the neck in. I might even clear coat it, fretboard and all. 

Looking good @Boo!

Coming on nicely @boo. 👍😁 

🙏🙂🎶🎸

Lookin’ good @boo, what kind of tuners are you using? 

what kind of tuners are you using? 

@mattbeels I’m using Gotoh Cosmo Black low profile locking tuners 3x3 

Look at those short posts, my headstock is thinner than usual.