I'm sure I've seen that exact guitar somewhere before .... .... ..... ...... ahhhh, yes, it's in that case 10ft behind my shoulder 😆 😆 (Mark built it for me, probably 12+ years ag...

That is a nice looking guitar!

@bpower Beautiful looking guitar, superb work. 👍

@rocknroller912 Another takeaway from this project is that two pack urea-formaldehyde resin is nothing like Titebond or other PVA based glues. It sets overnight but it cures over days, maybe weeks. A...

I think that's me done the finish sanding now, been going back and forth looking for scratches to remove. Carves for the pots etc are all smoothed off too. And also got the holes drilled for the locki...

Turns out some of you have short attention spans and don’t like all this talk of veneers. So, just for you, here’s some video of a vacuum pump.

Well stage one is complete! I'll watch the next bit of Marks vid tonight then onto using the gouge. Attachment : 20230220_201930.jpg And of course here's the belly carve. (Although I think it...

Mate, I film everything and stick it on my youtube channel under NSJ Guitars! Everyone knows! 🤣

Don't tell anyone, and no-one will ever know 😉

That sounds like a good couple of hours work ... but worth it for all the extra enjoyment you get from a much easier-playing guitar.

Right, decided to get on with the levelling, crowning and polishing of the frets before attaching the wings, loads easier. Levelled and crowned Attachment : 20230215_193433.jpg Then onto po...

@tv101 yeh alumium tubing off ebay, 6mm with 4mm internal diameter. I also got smaller stuff for the side dots, had to sand a 2.5mm drill bit down to about 2.4mm seeing I could only find imperial but ...

It's very effective @nsj - works well 👍 I did some experimenting with the CNC with a similar idea - except I was just cutting the channel in the material and avoiding the step of having to f...

@tv101 Use the tubing, cut teeth in, drill it in then cut it off and file flush. Then start again, cut teeth, drill etc. That might work

Today was good, got the fret markers done, then frets in and finally side dots. The new tools are helping a lot, hardly any levelling required after fretting due to getting everything so straight and ...

@tv101 We used a two-pack urea resin. I doubt we’d have had time to correct my foolish error otherwise. And yes, left it overnight in the bag.

Two surprises. I just watched a 20min video on different types of glue It was actually quite interesting and informative Two questions. Which glue did you use on the sides? I'm guessing the Bagp...

Next day, the other side was a doddle by comparison. Attachment : IMG_8906.JPG Attachment : IMG_8907.JPG

I decided to try and simplify things by bending and gluing the sides, which only require bending the lamination in one plane - not two. We chose the side with the least curves too: Attachment : IM...

@tv101 6mm carve? Or, 5mm carve and leave a little edge all the way round lol