Busy building my mortise and tennon jig.Now trying to figure out a clever way to hold the neck with the possibility to add a slight angle, as well as hold the body.Preferably with a way to remove anyt...

My shed is slowly evolving into a proper workshop.Got my shop vacuum cleaner and dust collector finally delivered 👏 🤗 Temporarily repurposing the hose from an old vacuum cleaner, but I...

Hope you all have a great Xmas and New Year - with love from Mark and Carol Apologies if you have seen it already... MASSIVE THANKS to to each and every one of you ...we don't know how we would have...

They fixed the edit button! Hooray and jubilations...now just Covid19 and Brexit to sort out...minor issues in comparison... Cheers folks!

Hello Peeps, It's been a long slow journey with many hurdles to get over........one of them being no space to build in. I've been on this Forum for over a year now..... still no guitar wood cut. The ...

More work happened today. Might have screwed up as I cut the start of the scarf joint today, but the back (glue side) of my neck wasn't planed and so I had to run it through the drum sander to get it ...

Boo had to invoke the curse of the CNC machinist, too. "if you are going to make one, might as well make two, right?" Started with the rock maple board, tonight. it was almost perfectly flatsawn, so I...

Thats great work @wayne_f Not sure what is the hardest part - but there is so much going on with the neck, with sizing and shaping and its the part of the guitar that you touch the most while playing...

Nice wee video @wayne_f. Keep them coming. 👍 🙂🎶🎸🙏

Well, "hardest" meaning the most strenuous. I know there are still plenty of opportunities to screw it up haha. @wayne_f Yes, I totally agree on both counts.

@wayne_f Nice work! great video too 🙂

@robin Well, "hardest" meaning the most strenuous. I know there are still plenty of opportunities to screw it up haha.

Nice video @wayne_f , I'm not sure that making the neck is the hardest bit, but I do enjoy it though.

Here's an overdue progress update video:

Routing the headstock angle revealed a defect exactly at the edge of where the headtock will be. Maybe I can get some grain filler to fix it. Attachment : 20211003_182707.jpg

@wayne_f Routing the headstock angle revealed a defect exactly at the edge of where the headtock will be. Maybe I can get some grain filler to fix it. What finish are you intending to put on your h...

Routing the headstock angle revealed a defect exactly at the edge of where the headtock will be. Maybe I can get some grain filler to fix it. @wayne_f It may not be a problem, just keep going and see...

@robin I was planning on doing an oil finish.

Hey there @wayne_f! Welcome to the forum and great job so far on all you’ve done. 👍

Looks good @wayne_f. On the next fillet just get it close but not fitting in the slot. Then sand it to the final thickness with a sanding block to get the snug fit you want.