but for 10 solid carbide burrs for less than a tenner its difficult to be anything other than happy.

True @darrenking - thanks!

Inspired by the finishing course and boo's latest creation I need to add some colour to my current build. So I've had a little experiment with water bsaed stains. The colours on my test piece looked a bit dull and pastel like, but after a spray of lacquer it looks reasonable. So now time to take the plunge and stain my ash body.

A question for @markbailey. On your finishing course you have a bolt on neck, so you can obviously finish the neck and body separately. Mine is a set neck, so what is the best finishing/assembly sequence. I'm thinking that I should stain the body and neck before gluing together and lacquer after gluing. Any advice appreciated.

@robin

It can be done either way but if it were me, I’d glue the neck on first and then  deal with the finish. 

Are you going to use different colors on the body and neck?

Thanks @mattbeels, the body is going be yellow/amber in the middle and blended through orange to red around the egdes, at thats the intention. The neck I think just amber.

Looking real sweet. 

My little rest piece polished up quite well so I've gone ahead and stained the body. There was a little flaw in the body that I had to fill and it didn't take the stain very well. So I mixed some dye into the filler and filled the hole again, I'll see what it's like when it's dry and sanded. I'll glue in the neck before I spray it.

@robin Hey, that looks very nice indeed. Great colours and a nice shine. 👍

Excellent @robin, looks great!

Looking Good @robin. Great work. 

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Looking good @robin 🤘🏻

Stunning

Stunning

Yeah, Stunning Stains @clinton 😉

@clinton  @mattbeels

Very observant of you both 🙂

It's all been going very well on this build, not too many mishaps to report. However, I was doing a trial assembly of the humbuckers yesterday and was chiselling the neck down flush to the body at the end of the fretboard and I didn't notice at the time, but I've knocked a chip out of the fretboard. I've searched to hoover and can't find the little chipped bit. I've searched for the offcut from the fretboard, i suspect that has gone up the hoover some time ago.  Has anyone got a little offcut from a rosewood fretboard that they stick in the post for me ?

@tv101 reminder to look in the morning (not supposed to be online this eve!)

@Robin - the easiest fix for that might be to mix some sanding dust with some glue and fill it?

Hi @tv101, that's probably what ill do, but I haven't got any rosewood to make dust from. I'll fix the maple part today, the chip in the rosewood won't look so big then.

@robin I’ve got a thin piece of dark wood that could be Rosewood. I can stick it in the post for you if you want it. It’s approximately 3mm thick. 

@robin

Small chip like that are hard to fix, sometime you have to make them bigger to fit a patch. Maple doesn’t usually look good with sawdust and glue, probably need real wood. I would do this bit first and cut the rosewood from in front of the chip then chisel off making a straight edge to glue on to. It can look seamless with practice.

Thanks @boo , that should do the job. That'll be great if you could post that to me.