Posted by: @koendb so I definitely will oil the guitar, and then finish off with shellac. Not sure if the poly adds anything for me. I'll be interested to see how it looks before and after the shell...

Posted by: @tv101 Ive got no experience of Shellac - I’ve only ever oil finished guitars, sometimes over stains. I did buy some Shellac many years ago, with the intention of trying it out, but never...

Made a back plate for the control cavity and a rough cut for the tremolo back cavity this weekend.. Attachment : IMG_20221002_184109575.jpg Attachment : IMG_20221002_184111998.jpg

Posted by: @tv101 That was a lot of work for one weekend @koendb! It took me a little more then a weekend though @tv101 🙂

That was a lot of work for one weekend @koendb! Ive got no experience of Shellac - I’ve only ever oil finished guitars, sometimes over stains. I did buy some Shellac many years ago, with the intentio...

Sweet @koendb. Nice work. 🎸🙂🎶🙏

I started a new build, based on the same model as I have build before (designing-my-own-neck-tru-guitar)But this time, I choose for a set neck and a Floyd Rose Tremolo system from Gotoh (1996T)The nec...

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This is My Favourite Song For This Moment..... 🙏🎶🎸🙂

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment........ 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Headstock veneer glued, just need to get a reamer for the tuner holes, after that it's onto leveling & radius the fretboard. It's incredibly cold in the workshop so keeping it hidden from my son a...

I think I have sorted the headstock now. Olive wood thicknessed to 2mm and I have also thicknessed a piece of walnut which matches the neck. With both together I think it will work out when I get to t...

@robin , Thanks Robin, that's a no bad idea. I was thinking of altering the shape of the headstock slightly and I have scrap I can use to test that out and see how it looks. Will try that this week. 🙂

@norriemac I think I would glue the 3mm olive wood onto the headstock before gluing the fretboard in place. Then flatten off the olive wood down to level with the top face of the neck where the nut i...

Thank you Russ, Robin & tv1, That's put my mind at ease. I've still to glue the fretboard anyway so will work on that and in the meantime I will practise blending on scrap before doing anything w...

Hello again all Hope you are all doing well. Just a quick question, I am building an OM acoustic. I was thicknessing the headstock and I was doing my last pass when my router bit slipped and took off ...

@tv101 That is utterly stunning

@tv101 that's pretty awesome...great colors...

And one final one. You'll see the brown mark on the body of this one - where your arm would rest. That's a flaw in the wood that only became visible when someone else was carving the top. It would h...

Here's another one - this from years ago - stained red then amber over the top Attachment : 20200916_162030.jpg