@nsj I love the way I handle mistakes these days rather than freak out. It's from making loads previously Thats a good fix. I'm sure that I learn a lot more from fixing mistakes than I do from gett...

Well today was different, I was doing my recessed controls but tried to be a bit clever and paid the price lol The bit caught the wood and had a munch Attachment : VideoCapture_20230315-183046...

@swepri it's a bit nervy but I just followed Marks vid and it came out great! Gave me a right buzz! I've got a stack of ebony boards, takes a right bloody whack to get the frets seated sometimes lol

@nsj It will be my first carve, so I hope it will be fairly easy. I'm going to do the neck first, while the walnut is acclimating in the garage. Working on the ebony fretboard at the moment.

Ooh nice, when watching Mark doing the carve he only marked about a 1/4 inch, 6mm or so so don't need it to thick. I'd imagine walnut would be nice to carve too. Also I can say that it's very satisfyi...

Starting my third build, finally. It will be loosely based on the Bandsman, but with tune-o-matic and four pots. I have a nice piece of walnut for the top and hope I will not screw it up when resawin...

Well after a few months I’m back to work building my second design. I had several other kit/parts builds I had started and I finished several while I’ve left my design alone. Here it is thus far thoug...

@tv101 mate used to work for carpenter oak in Scotland doing that very job, he travelled all over.

I've heard that some people even waste it, building house frames!! Nice carving work there.

Well today was carve day, oak is really really hard! Anyway I got there in the end and also did the access carve, did it on the bobbin sander and it worked lol Attachment : 20230313_174313.jpg...

Well I used the superglue and masking tape method again, this time to hold the neck into the body while I routered the neck pickup cavity. Done the bridge one too aswell as a nice belly carve and a sm...

@russ hehe I've seen Mark on about it in his lives and the look on hios face at the mention of superglue and masking tape! I might get some eventually but my shed is very windy inside so not to muc...

@nsj More nice work Neil. Just been watching your latest YouTube video. You don't need any advice from me when it comes to building guitars but get yourself some NEC tape instead of the super glue and...

Got sorting the neck more or less done today, fretboard radiused, neck carved including volute, headstock shaped and tuner holes drilled. Attachment : 20230311_170937.jpg Attachment : 202...

Neck kinda thicknessed and gluing on wings for the headstock. Maybe tomorrow I'll get the neck carved Attachment : 20230310_162737.jpg Attachment : 20230310_162721.jpg

Got a good bit of the neck cut out, sorted the heel, done the neck pocket and planed the angle into the heel for the tom bridge. Attachment : 20230309_182950.jpg Attachment : 20230309_18302...

Well after a bit of faffing about I think I'm fairly happy now. Next job, assembly Attachment : 20230307_183440.jpg

Just stop messing around and stick some bl**dy strings on it Boo!! Cheers Darren

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@bpower That could be me...