@boo You had better stock up on green paint cause after COP26 in Glasgow the new colour will be 50 shades of green.

Superb @jmcmi93888. 🎶🙂🙏🎸

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

First fretboard tapered and fret slots cut. Gonna make truss rods this week, fret board is 11.5" and so I'm looking at an 8 3/4" truss rod.

Well. That is the end of this story. I used sanding sealer and cellulose aerosols to spray the instrument then 400 and 800 grit sandpaper for the elm which gave me a sort of satin finish. I was origin...

A black day for guitar making

Wow @boo. 🖤 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Hi Tej It does cost in time though! This Sycamore was tight & straight grained - so I was able to thickness it green, albeit 6mm oversize, to allow for warping. It dries quicker when thinner &...

Posted by: @eddie6string When it stops losing weight, there's no need to wait! @eddie6string thanks, finally something that doesn’t cost me more money or equipment to test out 🙂

Getting there @boo 👍

@boo I'm very knowledgeable about things I haven't forgotten! Varies from minute to minute

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

@boo I had forgotten about @eddie6string that’s an impressive collection and it looks like he has some painting skills too

@boo Attachment : 20211102_123509.mp4 When it stops losing weight, there's no need to wait!

@boo Thats just too cool, and the matching pickups are a nice finishing touch.

I don't remember ever having a prime @Boo. 😥 😥

@tej Commercial wood producers have a tub of hot melted wax which they dip the ends of the wood in but really anything to seal it is better than nothing. I’ve even used varnish or paint in the past wh...

Cut out the first two fretboards today. Seemingly silly mistake to taper them first but they fit into a slide in the fret miter box, to keep them square. The board stock was not wide enough to not cut...

Thank you so Muchh.. i will check it now..

Just looked it up @Russ - Can't Explain was the 2nd single from the Who, released 15Jan1965. So, that'll be 57 years ago in a couple of months. Not bad for a second release. Still sounds fresh to my ...