@boo Yes I am ok. Tragic what happened in Maui. I live on the island of Kauai. Thank you for the concern. Good to see your back on the forum. We missed you.

I suppose this one is up to @Boo 's sleeve: I am considering getting my feet wet into spray painting, after having bought a small cheap airbrush setup for touch up work in guitar repair.To do the occa...

Got a bit more done today Attachment : 20230622_130442.jpg Attachment : 20230622_164412.jpg Attachment : 20230622_225744.jpg

@robin but it is straight lines and defined curves, then it's just glue all the bits in lol

@nsj I've got abalone dots on my current build, just the standard round ones. I'm looking forward to seeing the scaley dragon though. A bit too artistic for my talents, I'm an engineer, I do straight ...

@robin you can get retangles of abalone and stuff off ebay, that's what I did with a view to chopping them up to make an inlay. Mind you, i fancy doing a scaley dragon or something down a fretboard...

@russ my life is one big faff lol

@nsj Your bat inlay looks perfect, that's something else I'll have to try sometime. I had a try a while back using some shells off the beach here as inlay material, but the shell was to brittle and f...

Nice work @nsj. Enjoying watching you "faffing about on YouTube" with this one. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

@bpower Cheers. The secret is a dark ebony board, sawdust and superglue disappears!

@nsj that looks fantastic. A fancy inlay is something I'm still trying to build up the courage to do. 🙂

Ok so I got new binding, going with an ivory as I think it'll look great with the black limba. I'll choose some other pickups. Did my first ever 12th fret inlay, bought a jewellers saw and some fancy ...

New bindind arrived today, it's to white, so now I have two that don't match the pickups lol. Anyway ordered another, 3rd time lucky hopefully. In the meantime I got the headstock all shaped, thickn...

Turns out the binding is to yelllow when you get it in good light but I have more browny coloured cream binding on the way which should match the pickups better, it's more yellow than it looks in the ...

Due to taking the lady shopping today I didn't get a lot done. My binding showed up though and looks a pretty good match to my pickups. Also my new binding router kit from radian tools arrived for doi...

Did some of the cutting out of the inner horns and planed the fretboard sides to make room for binding, so far so good. Attachment : 20230612_170603.jpg Attachment : 20230612_170725.jpg

Little bit more work today, did the slot for the pickup wiring so when I rout out the pickup cavities the channel will appear. I cut a lot of excess off the neck to make it easier to deal with. And I ...

Cheers @nsj. Good to know. 🙂🙏🎸🎶

Well today I finally made a start, worked everything out then got the truss rod slot sorted, fretboard pinned and headstock angle. Need to wait on binding, then shave the fretboard down and attach the...

@russ all stable, only ever had one where the neck warped and that was a very expensive piece of birds eye maple! Yet if I've used old floorboards etc they're stil as good as the day I made them lol