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...

I'm having second thoughts on the recap & carve it approach. Takes an hour or two to assemble a guitar, and maybe 10mins to strip it all back - and only that long because I desoldered everything...

My curiosity got the better of me so I rigged up a crude jig and drew a 12, 14 and 16 inch radius to see the difference, needless to say it's not a lot! Looks like you could use a 12 ich bridge with a...

What's the an advantage to having a flatter fretboard, I'm not a player, still learning?

I've never really understood why some guitarists are so insistent that they can "only" play a guitar with X, Y, or Z radius, or a scale length of this, that or the other, or only 21, 22 or 27.5 frets ...

(Allegedly), it's easier to play and bend single notes vs easier to play chords. But I can never remember which is supposedly easier to do on which sort of radius! Acoustics tend to be flatter, so I ...

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...

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...

@jamesbisset ha ha I’ve been using car body filler for years to cover up my poor mold making, so does that mean I’m a professional

@robin I used Titebond for speed because we were only running tests, but I reckon the combination of Titebond AND spray AND thin (and a little warped) sacrificial veneers all contributed.

Conclusion? I can’t afford the time or the wood to do a full set of controlled experiments. There are too many variables: Mould depth The curve of the carve Thickness of veneers Number of layers Vari...

@jamesbisset And this time the lamination crumpled up like a hankie. You're certainly having challenges there. Do you think that wetting it is the problem there. I think I remember Darren using n...

And so I returned with a new mould made with 6 layers of 2mm MDF rather than 5 layers of 3mm MDF - so approx 12mm deep rather than 15mm. We were running out of fancy veneer we could risk on tests. So...

👍 I'd not noticed the tape.

@jamesbisset Hi James, Just wondering if it would be better not to tape the veneer to the mould and just allow it to slide into the hollow. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🎸Ἳ...

Was the trial cap, or the veneers, moistened at all or perfectly dry? Just wondering whether a bit of moisture would make any difference?

Don't blame you @jamesbisset.

Both pressings were aborted. I now had two slightly bent veneers with cracks. To continue the testing, we took the two cracked veneers and put a leaf of cross-grain poplar in between. Then we glued th...

We tried another piece of joined veneer, this time using the back mould. It happened again. Attachment : IMG_8873.JPG On the plus side, look how closely the veneer has followed the mould. Even ...

Moulds made. Veneers book-matched and joined. it’s time to get sooking no blawing. But first, a test press.As I’ve only got enough veneer for the actual build, Mr Bailey volunteered a piece of book ma...