@tv1010101 I'm not in a Brazilian forest, but at Knapdale forest a bit further up the scottish west coast from Mark. The pine is the last piece of a bed frame, the rest of it is now shelves in my bath...

@darrenking Thanks for the advice Darren, I'll certainly check the grain. All I know so far is that it's 144x33.5x1880mm, so I should get something useful out of that.

@robin Check the direction of the grain as you want the neck to be a close to quarter cut as possible ie the running perpendicular to the fret board. If your plank has the grain running across the boa...

@tv1010101 I'll give it a go and time will tell. It'll be a couple of weeks before I can go to collect the mahogany, I should be ready to start the neck by that time.

Can I glue a bit on to thicken it at the heel for a set neck I'm pretty sure that I've seen commercial builds done exactly like that, so I don't see why it would be a problem.

@tv1010101 Keruing is maybe just a general name for various species, I might as well give it try, somebody has to be the first. At the very least I can use this trail to make and delvelop the jigs ...

Has anyone else used Keruing? Not to my knowledge! Some timbers have all sorts of different names though, so never entirely sure of what I've got, or used in the past ...

The clamps are off and the cap routed to the body profile, I'm really pleased with the nice clean joint line. The remaing stained nail holes wiil disappear with the humbucker cavity. Attachment : ...

Rutlands have sales periodically. One time that they did, I bought "a few" clamps of different types & sizes. I've not run out since ... in fact, some are still in their boxes waiting for the day ...

@robin Like guitars....there’s always room for one more!

@david-johnson09 Thanks Deej, and thats my entire collection of clamps.

No matter what...you always need more clamps.. the build looks great Robin.

Another step forward, thats the cap glued and clamped. Needs more clamps ?

And a preview, with the neck template and bridge sitting in place, of what it might look like. Attachment : 20200903_170516.jpg

Another step forward, thats the cap glued and clamped. Attachment : 20200903_192111.jpg

@tv1010101 Iv'e just found this template on my internet pop up adverts, looks like I'm not the first to have done out of alignment f holes. I didn't make any progress with it yesterday, the rain stop...

Iv'e cut the second f hole now Ahhhh, well, in that case, it looks just fine ? Seriously, be good to see how this build evolves. Always interesting to watch, and see how all the various challenges g...

@tv1010101 The bottom one is smaller, there's a few reasons why. I originally hadn't intended to have f holes at all. The top one is there and is so large to disguise the three attempts I had pluggin...

Crafty design work @robin! A question ... I wonder how the f-holes being out of alignment (and is one smaller than the other?) will look on the finished guitar. If you've moved the lower one just to ...

Iv'e started on the cap for my under the caravan scrapwood guitar. I'd tried unsuccessfully to disguise the black stained nail holes. So with a bit of rethinking and strategic positioning I can remove...