looking good

The piercing saw worked a treat to clear the glue in the fret slots, no where near as much in as I’d thought which was good. Anyway, the fret board is on, irritatingly not perfectly aligned but we’re ...

Looks great @tej!

Thanks for the ideas guys, as it happened I stumbled across a bottle of deep penetrating oil today which I’m going to test out over my dyed scrap. I think it’ll give a similar result to those posted. ...

I actually just finish a lot of my builds with only shellac. I really like how my (shellac) finishes look and , more important, feel.Now I am not doing a french polish or anything like that, I just pu...

Hi Tej, Autocorrection kicked in, it is Hardwax oil. A mixture of oil and wax, normally used on floors. After staining I used another oil to get the intense yellow off a bit and also enhance the grai...

@bart-van-der-kemp Thanks, the finish looks good, not familiar with “hardware oil” have you got a link to the product please? Also did the oil alter the colour from when you stained it at all?

Hi Tej, I have used Osmo Hardwax Polyx oil for my last build. I stained an alder body yellow and then put 5 thin layers hardware oil over it. After applying a thin layer I waited about 12 hours for th...

Attachment : A235DCFC-F998-4EB2-98BD-F264293163BD.jpeg Attachment : 37AD4CDB-FCBA-4AAB-8689-0D84E0E55C08.jpeg Neck nearly done now, angle of the heal is a little steeper than I’d like so mi...

@koendb Don’t have it to hand, off the top of my head it’s going to end up 23mm at the headstock end. There’s a sizeable step from where I didn’t lock the depth stop in which means there’s now only ab...

As I screwed up the initial root for the truss Rod I can’t actually make the neck as thin as I wanted as I’ll end up with a hole in the back of the neck! @Tej How deep is the trussrod channel and wha...

Getting there with the neck, heal needs a lot more work still but the rest is pretty much there. I got a real issue though with the thickness. As I screwed up the initial root for the truss Rod I can’...

Slow progress after more illness! At some point I’m not going to need a new tool to do the next step, the carving is going well but the rasp I have is way to big for the heel and volute(?) so waiting ...

I gave up caring about tear out and small dings and chips, @koendb I can’t let this one go, it’s way too obvious! Should be able to clean it up ok though, in theory 😬

now with a small chip too so I’ll need to reprofile the edge and wrap the headstock with something to protect while I carve the neck. I gave up caring about tear out and small dings and chips, caus...

@russ cheers, it’s good from that angle, on the left though it’s literally paper thin, now with a small chip too so I’ll need to reprofile the edge and wrap the headstock with something to protect whi...

Looks great to me @tej. 👍🙂 🙏🎸🎶🙂

Took it down a little thinner than planned, as the tape slipped and I didn’t notice until it was too late, thankfully didn’t go through the veneer but it was pretty close!!! Attachment : E3A3F4E6...

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

Update on my last post. Robin Nolan confirmed the Flying V shown in the video is indeed a Gypsy Jazz Flying V acoustic. Looks like an interesting challenge for anyone brave enough.