Perhaps I should have said “sanded nearly to fit…….”I need to even up the gaps – probably tidy the recess – any hits of a good way to do this?Also need to reinforce the cover plate – possibly thin down…   Read more»

I routed the recess for the control plate cover – I was going to make a plastic cover but noticed that there was a piece of Ovangkol (albeit stuck to mahogany) from when I cut out the body that was…   Read more»

Fret installed, super glued and trimmed – no photos yet because I have some glue to remove from the fretboard……… 

Body rout now done – two tiny tear outs – one on the cap  alongside the switch hole – will be doing a round over so not a problem – the other is on the other side about 10mm down…   Read more»

Might put an A3 whiteboard and some dry wipe pens into the ‘workshop’ to put notes onto – better still if I can find one that also takes magnets……..  

Now I have the bits trimmed from the body I can see what the oil finish will look like – only two coats so far and I only gave it a little bit of a sand….https://flic.kr/p/2hZBsRhhttps://flic.kr/p/2hZz32P

Made the templates for the control cavity and have cut the hole in the back.  I followed the revised order and cut out the body.https://flic.kr/p/2hZabAWhttps://flic.kr/p/2hZdMh2Will do the rout another day as the workshop is chilly today. 

Body remarked – pickup routs done to 14mm – control holes drilled.https://flic.kr/p/2hZb3jnRealised that I haven’t made a control cavity pattern yet.

The body blank and cap were 49mm thick – have used my drum sander – removed about 1mm from the cap and 3 from the mahogany – needed to smooth the back because although I protected the front from clamps…   Read more»

Just had an email from Axminster – they have recently introduced/re-introduced an upgraded version of my drum sander so can supply most of the spares so that is good news going forward.

Looks lovely!

Cheers Darren – I am really enjoying the build.   Working with the videos from Mark is great – think I in retrospect I would actually make notes from the video for dimensions – I am sure that I watched…   Read more»

Managed to do the preparing the fretboard and adding dots……https://flic.kr/p/2hWHo2P

Worked out where I went wrong – after I got the third facet nice and flat and the correct thicknesses I missed out evening up the facets before I added more facets…….Went quite slowly and have now got the shape…   Read more»

Started the neck carve…….Scary……First two facetshttps://flic.kr/p/2hWvMHvGot the third facet sorted – thicknesses just about right then went on – the neck shape is a bit more D shaped then my two workshop builds – still some small lumps to sort…   Read more»

Removed the clamps from the glued up body – the sound hole (not f hole?) still needs tidying – the join in the cap looks ok, there is one tiny hole but it will be under the bridge.https://flic.kr/p/2hWzuGP

I had glued the two bits of my cap together at the start of the week – went back to it yesterday lunchtime and it had a distinct curve on it – it was very damp yesterday – very stupidly…   Read more»

I managed to lift the drum sander out of the car and have plonked it down in the area of the garage that houses my compressor and airbrush.Connected up the shop vac and did a simple test – first on…   Read more»

Clamps removed – fretboard successfully glued – ran a straight edge along the fretboard and it is nice and straight…..https://flic.kr/p/2hVRDzd