@johnnierox-boo All those jigs take up a lot of room though!

I’m thinking, perhaps hollow it out, re-cap it, and add a couple of not-f-holes.

@robin due to the horizontal rain Ahhhh, yes, I remember horizontal rain! I lived in the Lake District for 10 years ....

Didn't get a lot done today due to the horizontal rain. But I did manage to knock up a headstock angle jig. Attachment : 20200922_184002.jpg I also repaired my truss rod slot ready for routing...

Watch out Stewart & MacDonald. If you could put a catalogue together @darrenking, Mark could have another one to work through, buy8ng everything ... 😆 😆

@johnnierox-boo Hi John et al, I have now finished pricing the little fret slotting jig and can confirm the following end user prices: Main jig - £37+ VAT = £44.40 inc VAT Scale length templates - eac...

@jamesbisset Water based finish might be the best thing if you are working in your house. I think Tonetech sell it

@rocknroller912 This takes building a guitar on the kitchen table to a whole new level!

@jamesbisset I think oil varnish would work on a guitar but your correct it's not cheap. I've just purchased some from Italy and 3 x 100 ml bottles were about £30 each, however that would do 3 violins...

@rocknroller912 Thanks for that. Would I be right in thinking it’s a fairly expensive way to finish a guitar though? Would you do it? Touchstone Tonewoods varnishing set for oil varnish

@jamesbisset Oil varnishes are fairly easy to apply and the colour stage can even be rubbed in by hand without a brush. There are base, colour and finish stages which can be accelerated by uv light in...

Can’t get the 'edit' button to work, so I’ll just stick this in a separate post - oil vs spirit vs Stradivarius:

It appears that there is a debate eternal in the violin world over oil vs spirit varnish. It always reaches the ‘what would Stradivarius do’ stage. Essentially, spirit varnishes are quick to apply and...

That’s what I’m trying to work out. There must be some sweet spot between the poetry (and sheer bloody-mindedness) of this: and the simplicity (crudeness?) of just thinning a pot of Ronseal and wipin...

French polishing - Shellac?

I’m just wondering if there’s a finishing technique that’s half way between an oil rubdown and multiple coats/cans of nitro-cellulose?

It’s a very clever idea @TV1010101

Another option might be to cut off a section of the body and glue a new piece on - if you have an offcut from the body blank it might work...

And this is how it looks today ... Of course, you can see the outline of the plug close-up, but the pickup and bridge do a pretty good job of hiding the different grain patterns between the plu...

Great story - and the end result is well worth the effort you went through to fix it! FYI: Image uploads now fixed but we too are looking at using Imgur in the future