Birdseye maple neck, reputable seller and all and I'm not blaming them in any way. Just wondering if this common with things like birdseye? Finished the guitar and uploaded my final build vid to my yo...

🙁 @robin

@tv101 My thinking is that, as you cut out the body, you've cut across the fibres of the wood, so there are lots of shorter lengths rather than long, bent, lengths, so the sides need to be thicker t...

@swepri @robinMaybe I worry too much, but is the middle part wide enough to fit the studs for the bridge/tailpiece? If a tune 'o matic bridge is used, that is. I've taken more out of the middle sin...

@robin Maybe I worry too much, but is the middle part wide enough to fit the studs for the bridge/tailpiece? If a tune 'o matic bridge is used, that is.

That certainly looks like it should be solid enough @Robin. Lots of routering to hollow that out!

That's a good suggestion - thanks @koendb

I think, the thickness of the sides is probably more important during routing, due to the risk of tear out. Once you managed to route it , the thickness does not matter too much anymore, I think. Glue...

@tv101 When you make an electric, but hollow out some/all of the body, how thick do you need to leave the side walls to retain sufficient strength in the wood? I've left about 10mm on this one, I'l...

When you make an acoustic, or hollowbody, the sides are really thin - maybe 2mm-3mm. I guess because you're bending veneers, the strength of the wood is still there because the fibres of the wood are...

@tv101 don't think it'll need much, trees been standing dead a while and I've burnt the higher branches already. Give it a couple of months in the house I reckon.

How long will you leave it, after planking it, to dry out? And hope the muscle recovers soon!!

Hurt my back properly getting this chunk out from behind the shed lol. Still, there's a guitar body in it. Hoping the fact it splits into four gives some interesting grain. There's a holly tree and th...

@tv101 Using it or a router table your fingers are going to get reasonably close, you have to use a bit of common sense so if the wood catches your fingers don't get pulled into the cutter. But that ...

Nice mini router table. Not so sure that I like the proximity of fingers to cutter though 😲 😲

@tv101 I've got a bosch, some makita clone and a ferrex from aldi, the ferrex thing is a sweet tool. so smooth and fairly quiet. Bosch is great with the fence for doing the trussrod and for bigger job...

@nsj - I’ve got a couple of 1/4” and my big heavy Bosch Pro 1/2”. But as one of the 1/4”s is ~35 years old, it might be getting to retirement age! At full price, I’d not have bothered, but at half-p...

@tv101 That looks like a cracker of a tool, if I didn't have 3 already I'd consider it but I'm routered out my nut lol

For anyone wanting a(nother) router, Rutlands have, today-only, got a 1/4” router on a deal at half price - £49.99 My trusty old 1/4” router dates from B&Q in the 1980s, so I’ve just splashed out.

Ahhhh - you missed that a couple of weeks ago?? 😉