Just bought an old, but working, Jet 16-32 drum sander.Saw it on eBay – only 4 miles away – the plate on it says 1999.Will need to sort out a hose adapter for it and find it a space.

Fretboard glued on – clamped until the morning.https://flic.kr/p/2hVpFENI glued the two halves of the Ovangkol cap together – I now have some sash clamps.https://flic.kr/p/2hVox5nWhen the glue had dried I sanded the back with 60 and front with 80 and then…   Read more»

The body blanks from the Baileys Shop are 46mm…..

Think it is 45-46mm…… 

Shape of hole nearly right – what is the best way to cut it?https://flic.kr/p/2hUFEEw

I have glued the two pieces of the cap together. What is the best way to cut the not f hole – it is a back to front Rickenbacker shape – a curved triangle – will post a picture in the…   Read more»

Thought I would start the body.First bit was to route out the cavity – the mahogany blank is about 41mm thick so the cavity needs to be 29mm deep.I created a pattern the edges are 15mm thick.https://flic.kr/p/2hTjwZuTransferred the body outline…   Read more»

Fillet glued and clamped.https://flic.kr/p/2hTh1yiPlaned – used nice new Luban block plane…https://flic.kr/p/2hTkAof 

I’m trying not to miss taking pics of stages – I totally missed taking any pictures of the cavity routs on my Tele – I had glued the cap in place and put the clamps on before I remembered….

Rumbling on here in sunny (was today) Frocester – profiled the neck – was a bit of a coward at the nut end and stopped and started a bit short of the mark but otherwise OK.https://flic.kr/p/2hSxgkShttps://flic.kr/p/2hSuJ9QWill get in there with…   Read more»

Change that to I will have sash clamps by tomorrow – Rutland Tools sent me an email with details of their clamps and two minutes later a £20 off voucher in another email – also ordered my Liberon Finishing Oil…   Read more»

I have a two piece Ovangkol cap bought ready to join – I don’t have sash clamps.  How do I glue the two bits together?   

The old iMac in the ‘workshop’ was scrapped from work because it couldn’t be updated to the current operating system – it is now running Neverware the Google OS so I can watch the Guitar Making videos as I build….   Read more»

Headstock thicknessed and tuner holes drilled – tested holes with tuners…..Extended/widened the channel for truss rod at nut end and tested that I can adjust truss rod with Allen key.https://flic.kr/p/2hS1mKdhttps://flic.kr/p/2hS1mBh 

Mark – how would you open it up?

Started……Baileys now supply a 6mm truss rod – it needs the slot making a bit wider at the nut end as the adjuster is slightly more than 6mm.https://flic.kr/p/2hRp6enHeadstock angle cut and truss rod slot widened at end https://flic.kr/p/2hRp93JSide shape cuthttps://flic.kr/p/2hRkHFjTop shape…   Read more»

Does it work well without the infeed and outfeed tables?It is the bit of kit is top of my wish list – will see how the build with bits of wood prepped by Baileys goes…….What dust extraction have you got?

I see you got your sander thicknesser Mike!

I do need to keep a clear work space!

Making a start – routed a test slot for my truss rod into a bit of kitchen work top – only worried about the width at this point…https://flic.kr/p/2hHMDp7Hope to get up courage and cut real truss rod slot later this…   Read more»