I know that I have been posting progress on these under other topics but I thought it made sense to come back to the original one. I made a vacuum bridge jig today which just seemed simpler than makin...

Things are moving on. The body of the tropical olive Concert model has now been lacquered and the neck has had two coats, a rub down and now a final application of grain filler before another couple ...

I don’t think there is anything to laugh at regarding your clamps! They look great. I still regularly use a pair of 4’ sash cramps I made almost 35 years ago from ash with a bit of ramin glued and scr...

I don't care what the plan says, something is definitely not right with this neck!! Attachment : Erk5x vCQ4WqzClbqN3%Ew.jpg

Should have said guitar chair! Mind you, the guitar is really pretty too!

That's beautiful! Easily the nicest guitar I've ever seen!

Thanks for the suggestions Mark and option A has now been adopted. It only took a little under 1mm off the width at the 12th fret but I will remake the bridge to compensate for the narrower string spa...

Lots of cutters actually have a mark on the shank showing the recommended insertion depth. You may get away with 3mm or 4mm less but this will be putting excess strain on you cutter, your collet and p...

All right, all right!! Don't all laugh out loud at once!!! It WON'T happen again, I promise!

Having made the fretboards I have discovered problem with the cut away on the tropical olive guitar in that it doesn't properly follow the line of the fingerboard. Basically the cut away angles into t...

I have machined the fretboards to shape leaving about 0.7mm of thickness which I then cut through by hand and trimmed flush to the CNC'd perimeter with a trim router. These guitars have a zero fret an...

Hi Mark, Thanks for your input. This model is nylon strung and has a fairly normal bridge bonded to the sound board rather than the free floating version and tail piece of the steel string versions. I...

Ok, so I have now made the jig for machining the dovetail on the neck. I kept as many of the pieces identical to the body jig although I reduced the overall height of the jig slightly. I routed a coup...

Anyone fancy making their own?

Recent = Prevent!

Headstocks machined and should be mated with necks in the next day or two. The dowel holes are to aid alignment and recent slippage when gluing and clamping Attachment : 304BC26F-37E2-4371-B6C9-43...

I designed a jig many years ago to enable me to machine a radius on to some long vertical blind sections using just a hand router. It would be pretty simple to adapt the design to achieve the same on ...

Laminating the linings, veneering the headstock, sanding the front of the body prior to bonding the linings. Soundboards now pretty much ready to go bar for a little bit of final sanding. I like flat!...