@chrishamilton Hi again Chris, Was just thinking about your electrics problems, the most likely culprits are probably the volume and tone pots and the pickup selector switch. Try cleaning these with ...

Hi Chris, Welcome to the community from someone even further north!! Sure you will find answers to all of your questions. Happy soldering👍😃🎸 All the Best, Brian.

@swepri That’s an approach I’ve used often, usually before clearing out with a chisel e.g. in cutting a mortise. Would definitely reduce the amount of material to be routed out.👍😃

Thanks Rocknroller, that pretty much confirms my thinking on router bits. Of course I’ll be doing practice cuts on scrap wood first to assess the results. Just goes to show there’s always more than on...

Hi, thanks for the info, I didn’t mean that I would attempt a full depth cut staring from my pre drilled hole, just each 3mm or so incremental depth cut and gently easing the bit into the material. Ye...

@tv101 Great that you get the most out of your CNC and, yes, it must allow you to do stuff you couldn’t or wouldn’t otherwise attempt. On a slightly different tack here, most of the routing I’ve done ...

@tv101 Being a poor pensioner, I’m not likely to be able to afford/justify the cost of a CNC and don’t really have the space for one (mind you it would probably fit in the space currently occupied by ...

@tv101 CNC eh, hmmm. Surely that takes all the fun, excitement, frustration, blood,sweat, tears, satisfaction (delete as appropriate) out of this wonderful mad journey we’ve embarked upon!!🤣&#...

I’ve been busy making my patterns and jigs for my first scratch build. Mark makes the pattern by cutting in from one side and then removing the waste and exiting the piece of MDF the same way he went ...

@rocknroller912 👍😃

@swepri 😃👍

@tv101 Exhibition tape seems to be the answer.👍😃

Exhibition tape it is then!!

I Just done my daily battle with the Capcha security feature and just about lost the will to live, is it just me? Anyway, to my question. Early days in my first scratch build, making my jigs, patterns...

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.😃👍🎸

@robin I’ve often pondered the question of sinking a bridge into the body as an alternative to achieving an accurate neck back angle to give a nice low string action. Seems viable to me but , as I’m j...

Thanks all for the words of encouragement, much appreciated. Forgot to mention that, of course, I was wearing my dust mask and my dust extraction system has trapped all that future value dust!!!£££&#x...

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@russ Electric to start with, then who knows?!

@tv101 Yes, I think I need to change that user name!!🤣👍