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 a...

Clamps removed - fretboard successfully glued - ran a straight edge along the fretboard and it is nice and straight.....

Just bought an old, but working, Axminster MSRS 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. I glued the two halves of the Ovangkol cap together - I now have some sash clamps. When the glue had dried I sanded the back with 60 and front with 80...

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?

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 morning..

Thought I would start the body. First bit was to rout 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. Transfe...

Fillet glued and clamped. Planed - used nice new Luban block plane...

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. Will get in there with my...

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 Fini...

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...

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.

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. Headstock angle cut and truss rod slot widened at end...

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...

I see you got your sander thicknesser Mike!