@boo welcome!

Great work Boo, your friend is a very lucky guy!!👍😃👍

Nice work @boo. Great finish. 🎸🎶🙏🙂

Hi @somethingnicer, That looks about right, but I'm no expert. Nitro is a nice thin finish, but is very easy to sand through! I think @boo is the expert in finishing here. I'm sure he can give a few ...

Looks great @boo! I really like the heel carve. Very classy, top work!

Hello, my name is Julio Herrera. I will suggest you a 1.75" nut width is a good starting point for a Tele with a wide neck. For a Telecaster-style guitar with a wider neck, the width of the nut and th...

Plane across the grain to take the thickness down to close to final, leaving about 0.5 mm depending on tear out.Sand or scrape the last part smooth.

I found also in books of lutherie mentions of these toothed blade, I've never used them, but maybe I will try. Thank you @russ

@mario Hi Mario, Sounds like you are doing all the right things. It is just very hard work doing it by hand with a plane. Rosewood is renowned for being difficult to plane because of the high risk of ...

Hi, Any advice for thicknessing Indian rosewood with hand plane(s) for back and sides ? For now, it is taking me many hours for the back, from 6mm to 2,5mm of thickness. I find it very hard and surel...

@somethingnicer ah good news! You could stay with 2 pickups and use a push pull as a pickup selector. But as you've gone back to your original plan, all good!

@liebe hey Dan, thanks a lot. I ended up plugging the hole and just going down to one pickup… this was my original plan to begin with so not worrie. I’ll just cover the pickup hole with a pick guard

Hi @somethingnicer, I'm presuming you've drilled the hole for the switch, but not routed out the cavity for the switch and that's what you're wanting to do next? You are pretty close to the edge. It'...

So if you remember my post about messing up my scale, I fixed that by altering the design of the body and cutting the top part (closest to the neck) off and making it look smooth. And it came out supe...

@tv101 hey, did you happen to go through with the ash neck in the end?

I've ruined a couple of bodies, a couple of necks and an almost finished build! But, I've learnt to get over stuff pretty quick these days and just get on with it lol.

Finally got this delivered to the owner. Attachment : IMG_1918.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1917.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1915.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1916.jpeg Attachment : IMG_19...

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So thought I should update this and show y’all the pics I’ve taken since I began this build. The guy will be picking it up on July 4th around Noon EDT. Afterwards he will draw the winner for this year...

I’m getting close to being finished with a guitar for the winner of the drawing I had months ago. It is a copy of my 3rd design I named Maria after my wife yet using a variation of her middle name, Ma...