Attachment : image.png That's pretty effective @NSJ - as you say, very spalty.

Hi Siddharth Have fun, ask loads of questions and post lots of pics. You’ll find everyone really helpful and supportive. Darren

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

@siddharthmehtaa Welcome Siddharth. Have you got plans to start building your guitar soon? Do you want to build electric or acoustic guitars? I'm sure you'll get lots of great advice here when you get...

Hi Siddharth, welcome to the forum, I’m a fairly new member also and have found the forums very useful. Enjoy your guitar building journey.😃👍🎸

Velcome to this friendly forum. I am sure you will get a lot of good advice.

Heya Everyone! I am Siddharth Mehta, Engineer at Religare Aviation Ltd, I am new in this Guitarmaking Community, hope will learn lots of new tips and tricks of Guitar making.

Don’t look at me mate. Not unless you need an invisible fillet down a bump in the middle.

@tv101 JB seems to be the veneer expert

@tv101 Not saying it's terrible, just maybe not as good as having an actual piece of the wood lol. Worst case in this context 🤣 🤣

@NSJ - don't really see that as a worst case option TBH - I've got a load of veneers here waiting for a use!

@tv101 Worst case you could maybe use random wood then add a veneer to match the top?

Neck blank has been routed, trussrod fitted and fretboard glued, I can get on with that tomorrow or something but in the meantime I've been out and levelled the top of the body blank then cut it out. ...

@tv101 An absolute improvement over the old finish! I agree that the cavity cover should look better with same grain direction as the body. But is it possible to throw away the old one? It's shaped li...

@tv101 Very nice, I like the natural finish. I don't think that wood of the cavity cover necessarily has to match the body but I do prefer the grain in the same direction.

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You have some handy mates up there @nsj!

Got another piece off a mate, defo oak this time. Need to figure out which way they'll go best together. Attachment : 20230301_180126.jpg Attachment : 20230301_180145.jpg

That router jig you've made...is that from a plan you've picked up somewhere, or did you just create it? Looks like you could have the inner 'sleds' set with removable sides for various radii? just s...

So got to my mates today and got the sycamore sawn up. His self made gadget worked a treat! Attachment : VideoCapture_20230301-155209.jpg Attachment : 20230301_155005.jpg Attach...