So now we get to the night I'm starting these posts, I went in to the hackspace thinking I would have a whole evening to myself to work on the guitar, no shop projects, no hackspace system admin, no i...

Attachment : headstock angle.webp For a couple of reasons I took a slice off the top of the neck blank, then flattened it again using the planer. When it came to routing the headstock angle Mark's...

Attachment : templates.webp So, in the Hackspace we have a large format laser cutter, so I used that to cut some templates. We also have a Denford CNC converted to LinuxCNC (guess which muggins go...

Attachment : Fretslots.webp I think you may recognize the jig. This was the first day of the London Craft Festival, and I had spent the whole day talking to people trying to convince them to join ...

So having joined the London Hackspace in the hope of using the faciities to build guitars and other cool things I somehow wound up first as a maintainer organizing the woodshop and then as a Trustee (...

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@russ many thx

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@russ You know thats the second time I've seen Osmo come up. Guess I'll check it out!

@somethingnicer I've seen a couple of guys using this...... not just on the neck but on the whole guitar. Attachment : big--675c3fbd.webp 🙏🎸🙂🎵

working on my first maple neck and fretboard. I decided to do a separate fretboard for a couple reasons. I’m really happy with how it’s coming along so far. My inlay blocks are poured epoxy. So since ...

Yes there were a few hairy moments. In fact on one of the cuts the router took a bite and exploded a chunk up near the toggle switch. I had to take a scary sharp chisel and pare the blow out back to a...

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Lucky enough to be in Ayr with Mark and Carol building a Moonshiner 🙂 with the rosette made out of scrap wood from two previous builds... Attachment : P1410475.JPG Attachment : P141...

Thanks very much, and of course I can. The best way would be with a table saw but at the time I started this I didn't have access to one so I used a mitre saw. I started with 12mm plywood at around 3...

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I Attachment : IMG_8337.jpeg I’m about to grain fill with aqua coat and ebony dust to prepare for final sanding and then finishing with Keda leather dye for the top and going batural for the b...