Got a couple of bits done today, body sort of shaped, fretboard slotted, neck blank sorted and trussrod fitted. It's a spoke wheel trussrod though so I need to sort out the heel end for access. A...

Anyway, today I stopped by a friends joinery shop, he handed me some yew wood which looked interesting Attachment : 20230418_150428.jpg I took the piece on the left and trimmed it down, the...

Got the carve done today and the recess for the controls, after a lot of sanding I wiped down with white spirit to have a look. Looks awesome! Attachment : 20230516_173348-01.jpeg

Well this has progressed, body cut out, pickups and control catvity routed, belly carve done and neck on it's way to being done. Tomorrow I'll be carving the top, mostly filing due to the knots lol ...

Sawed up the other piece of yew I had, got another nice top for another build, maybe carve this one Attachment : 20230426_164229-01.jpeg

Finally getting down to the actual building of this guitar! Unlike solid sides, these laminations have rough, uneven edges and are not yet cut to size. So one edge was sanded flat on a sanding board, ...

Body cut out, neck roughed out, neck pocket done and heel angle done using a handplane. Next up will be pickup cavities I think. Attachment : 20230328_165057.jpg Attachment : 20230328_1...

What can I say, didn't last long before I got hit with an idea and I'm back in my shed! Same frined that gave me the last pieces of scabby looking oak gave me yet another piece. After feeding throug...

Last week, I worked on the rosette some more. I glued parchment on the back, using fish glue and cut out the details with a punch and a scalpel knife. Attachment : 493F91F6-D082-4708-BEEE-219B7F75...

Back in the good old days of lockdown and live streams I had drawn an acoustic guitar. Two years later I've actually started to build it. Some time ago I cut some slices off a 6 inch square lump of ma...

Well today was carve day, oak is really really hard! Anyway I got there in the end and also did the access carve, did it on the bobbin sander and it worked lol Attachment : 20230313_174313.jpg...

Well I used the superglue and masking tape method again, this time to hold the neck into the body while I routered the neck pickup cavity. Done the bridge one too aswell as a nice belly carve and a sm...

Got sorting the neck more or less done today, fretboard radiused, neck carved including volute, headstock shaped and tuner holes drilled. Attachment : 20230311_170937.jpg Attachment : 202...

I finally dismantled one of these barrels today. Hammer and bar did the trick, it was quite easy. I just knocked off the metal bands/hoops (don’t know the technical term) and the thing just fell apart...

@clinton Nice!

Looking forward to seeing these develop @clinton 🙂🙏🎸🎶

I've put a proper Bigsby on it now, what a difference from the piece of Chinese junk that I originally had. Attachment : 20230308_174937.jpg

Well f**k! I am one super happy chappy! Massive thanks to Mr Bailey and his really helpful vids. Copied what a watched and tada! Attachment : 20230221_181629.jpg Attachment : 20230221_181...

Fast forward to now. Something went wrong when I was fitting the neck/body joint. I got a good clean joint but I must have altered the neck angle and height while I was doing it. So I've had to sink t...

That just looks right. Congrats on another excellent build @clinton - where's this one heading?