Currently waiting for my neck blank to be delivered but it should be here in a couple days. I ordered one that's 30X4X4. I'm gonna have to rip it down to two separate 2X4 pieces and then smooth out th...

Again, thank for the welcome - and I'm sure great advice. I'm just about finished my 2nd kit build, I've learned A LOT - some of which I'll go back and apply to my 1st kit and even some of my more aff...

t was a little scary. @boo I’m not putting a reamer anywhere near this build, bad experiences with them, if it comes to it I’ll make some tedious sanding tool and do it very carefully. I’ve some scra...

I’ve somehow missed all of this I’ll not take your previous silence personally @boo 😉 Only concern now is that the bridge is a very tight fit in the mount holes, at least it is in the test on...

making a neck still looks intimidating @stephen Firstly, welcome 🙂 Secondly, please don’t let wood intimidate you! I’d previously put together a kit guitar, finished it nicely and learn how t...

Welcome @wayne_f I hope you enjoy your stay, gonna head over to the showcase to see what you’re up to 🙂

@frank1985 how did you get on?

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

My version is a piece of MDF with a couple of cheap toggle clamps from Amazon screwed into it 😬 Cheers @tej. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

Here’s a pic of one that does the same, I’ll post a pic of my more rough and ready version later. It’s basically a straight plank with a couple of clamps on, I might have over sold it 🙂 So you...

not sure about others but I used a table saw with a jig I use to square rough planks. Happy to elaborate with picture if it’s of use? Some pictures would be great @tej. Cheers, 🙂🙏&#x...

Can I ask how you managed to make an accurate neck taper template? @russ not sure about others but I used a table saw with a jig I use to square rough planks. Happy to elaborate with picture if it’s ...

Well hello there, after an uncooperative summer mixed with illness and isolation progress is now being made again. Top coats of finish now going onto the body and neck, pics to follow. Looking at abou...

@rocknroller912 yeah very displeased with my Frankenfinish! I took to it with the random orbital in the end and took it right back finishing by hand with the grain. First coat of deep colour went on w...

@tej It must be bad if you don’t want to show it. Scraping is sometimes better than sanding to remove a failed finish as sanding can just rub it further into the grain. I’ve been there so learned the ...

Sadly what I created was a mess @rocknroller912 I know what you’re getting at but that’s really not what it’d have come out like and is about as far away from what I wanted as you can get. No matter, ...

@tej Its difficult to comment without seeing a photo but not all instrument finishes are designed to be even all the way over, and stain often looks bad until the final finish coat. Sounds like you h...

@robin I had done, it just looked a mess, really uneven texture and colour. Just need to suck it up and start again.

, while sanding down the filler I caught the edges too much and took all the colour off them. Couldn’t get it back the same as the rest so literally need to sand everything back now I feel your pain ...

Well this is al getting rather infuriating, finish was going well until I added grain filler, it’s now a total mess, while sanding down the filler I caught the edges too much and took all the colour o...