What’s wrong with pink flake? 🤷🏼‍♂️

@russ yeah it doesn’t look particularly hard or time consuming. There seems to be a hell of a lot of specialist tools that just aren’t necessary unless you’re trying to produce a lot of instruments in...

@tej Also a press isn’t necessarily faster, but it’s definitely more expensive. A small arbor press doesn’t cost a ton (swidt) but it’s more than a hammer plus you need the caul and at least one fret ...

@mattbeels thanks, don’t have an arbour press so that’s not really an option, I’ve heard of people mounting a caul in a drill press though not sure that’s a good plan for my cheap drill. Like the idea...

I imagine that you can do it as quickly with a hammer as you can with a fret press @tej......by the time you set up the press you could have a few of the frets in with a hammer. 🙏😕&#x...

They’re two different techniques to achieve the same result. The method you use will be the one that suits you although depending on the neck construction style you may want to employ both. With a ham...

What are people’s experiences with using a fret hammer vs a fret press? I’ve seen Mark’s lesson on installing frets and it looks straightforward, appreciating his experience may have a lot to do with ...

I’m just a goofball We have a saying in flemish: 'Knowing yourself is the start of wisdom' 😋

If was fine actually @koendb, I’m just a goofball 🤪

I like the vintage just before dinner look. @mattbeels haha, yeah that sentence came out weird. 😎

@koendb It looks like it cane out well, great job! I like the vintage just before dinner look. 😉

Tonight , I applied stain ( amber, brown and yellow ) to give my neck an vintage look just before dinner. And this is how it looks after a coat of shellac I put on just an hour ago. Attachment : ...

It’s the Strat I’m doing in pink flake. Are you sending me the cases for your effects pedals, Suddenly, I feel nervous ....

I try to normalise the data I input so everyone else can make sense of it much easier (I hope). You've never tried searching this forum - even for something that you posted yourself - have you! I don...

My concern is that because it’s wood and there is a joint, one bit of wood going into another, it may become visible over time. For sure, that's always a risk. But it's the same risk when you joint ...

Why do you weirdos guys call it a skip? @mattbeels because calling it a milk bottle would be silly.

Start a new thread every time you start building a new guitar. And that's a good way of keeping a record that you can check back to in later builds. Many times I've reached the stage of doing somethi...

Yeah I hope it works but we’ll see, it may not. Boo - why would it not work? Unless the finish sinks into the join, or sinks differently into the different wood, then surely - once painted - you're...

I’ll be renting a skip soon @boo Why do you weirdos guys call it a skip?

Looks great @boo and I hope it works out with your invisible neck joint! It seems your shop got a bit of a tidy or am I mistaken?