@koendb I always make the radius before I cut the fret slots as I find using a plane can chip at the slots.

@koendb I must admit, with the new long beam I bought it's a lot quicker and I get really nice results, I think ideally I would plane first then use the beam. Best of both.

@nsj Yes I know you meant flattening, I just wanted to point out that you can also do the radius with a plane. I never get good results with sanding alone and it takes too much time 🙂

@koendb I mean for the inital flattening, getting the board nice, level and straight. I've never tried planing the radius in yet but do fancy trying it, need to get some radius gauges first.

Yup No 5 for a fretboard for me. Thickness it, Make it straight, cut the fretslots. Then, setup the hand plane for smoothing, and take a pass on both outer edges of the fretboard, repeat, and take a p...

@tv101 I put mine through the planer thicknesser but obviously sanding is even smoother. But yeh, lots of people use that set up on various small pieces with good success, me, think I'll just use t...

Erm, not sure I'd even both trying that. You'd have to be so careful and consistent with the pressure against the up-and-downer, and the speed at which you pass the board past it. I'd expect the out...

Erm not exactly but I seen it the toobs and thought I'd try, not totally convinced though. They make it look easy to get a perfect finish on the toobs but I've still got slight ripples. Not bad though...

Did a bit of refining on the shape then got the floyd cavity sorted. Tomorrow it's onto pickups and control cavity and maybe start the carve Attachment : Smalled.jpg Attachment : Smalled2...

Haha , yeah maybe 🙂 though, I am willing to bet you will not like to do that commute every week 😀The CMB is located in Puurs, roughly in the middle of Belgium

Yes it is @Robin! And once you start to get it right , you feel like the king of the world for the rest of the day.Together with that, I also developed a very profound and severe case of GAS for sharp...

That's incredible @koendb! Very similar to what I've been doing with the CNC machine really, except that it's just about the complete opposite method. In awe of the hand-tool skills to be able to work...

@koendb Wow! That involves a lot of patience and skill. And learning, which always is fun. 👍

@koendb The headstock was originally made separately and wedged in with the neck. Since this requires quite some skill to do properly, I suspect that you already have the skills to do it "properly"...

Excellent @koendb. That's a great job rounding over the neck without the use of any sandpaper. Looking forward to seeing the rosette completed. You already look like you've got very good hand tool ski...

@koendb very cool koen. 🙂

Then we finetune the shape of the heel, by pressing the neck against the body, with a strip of sanding paper between, pulling the sandpaper back and forth over the body shape. Then the neck is glued ...

I've been pretty quiet on the forum the last couple of months because I had so much things going on , that I barely had the time keeping up reading through all the new replies and topics.Last summer, ...

I can say, with some confidence, that it would have been some amateur. 😆

@tv101 oh yeh, pesky neck, who put that there? Didn't think that in the small hours lying in the dark lol