So you did Mark - I couldn't see through the tears of disappointment ? This is the way we shall progress... thanks again for your patience.

Thinks... Hey but Mark... as I intend to spray said Stratomonster a Stratty colour I can attach a similar block underneath at the body end to the optimum thickness wot wot wot?

Ah! Not having the hardware yet I hadn't measured the depth of the trem block.Back to the drawing board!I had also been watching video of people putting the angle into the neck rather than the body bu...

My block is 970x110x42 This is a first draft and I will re-draw when I have the actual components. I have used your fingerboard so that sets the length dimensions. Attachment : HP_190430_IMG_7484....

Hah - the plan is to have no pup surrounds but to load from the rear. No screws on the front at all. Mad (probably) - but I think I have a plan. I may not have enough neck depth to angle the headstock...

Now I have your lovely piece of rosewood I have begun the drawing and more detailed planning... I can now see that a conventional Strat not only has the fb thickness but also up to 5mm of neck wood wh...

Hi "Chaps", I'm planning a through-neck ("mahogany") Strat in lots of ways just because... Using standard Strat hardware (tremulated) I'd be interested to know whether anyone can think of a reason why...

I will experiment sometime I think... you get a lotta CA glue from Poundland for er... £1... seems to work fine. thanks for great input again... (it echoes a bit in this sparsely populated space doesn...

back to the original subject... I wonder whether using cyanoacrylate as a wood finish would have done the job? Anybody had any experience of using superglue in this way? H

More good input - thanks. Ben at Crimson is a vintage tool nut and runs a shop specialising in those in parallel to Crimson Guitars. Perhaps he thought that the tools were more relevant to the Maker S...

Oooooo - nice cabinet! Actually all your work looks amazing! If you look carefully at the back of my build you should discern the sweep of a cover plate along with its 4 screws - kinda influenced by s...

Well - I finally got round to this and here are the photos requested by Mark. I removed the frets and sanded a mm or so off the fingerboard. I re-fretted and quite heavily "rolled" the edges of the 'b...

Well, I got round to this and I learnt a lot BUT... it's a fail. The neck, from a nylon string beginner's guitar found in the woods, just can't take even 2 steel strings. Project abandoned. I may re-v...

Unless I get alarms from you guys I think I'm going to fine sand and rub in a few coats of Renaissance Wax. That seems to retain a lighter colour in the wood, maximising the contrast of the grain and ...

I used an oil-based poly varnish from Toolstation and mixed it 50/50 with white spirit. Unfortunately wenge seems to darken considerably at the slightest sniff of solvent. Even the wax darkened it ini...

OK - I've tried a 50/50 poly/white spirit rub. Nice finish but still darkens the "Wenge" considerably. But... I think I may have found the answer... Sanding to > 320 grit and then Renaissance Wax. ...

Great points Darren, thanks... oil-based it is then. I had already completed the guitar so the finish lightening project was an after thought - it's not a big deal. What was a big deal was my homemad...

good thinking but my wife might not agree... surprised she didn't have a little word about gunky, resinous residue in our largest casserole pot... think I got away with it by swiftly squirting the Fai...

to my finishing expert friends... I have a mind to try the water-based Poly to avoid darkening the wood as much as possible. Is this a bad idea? If I dilute it more and do more coats will it soak in b...

Someone gave me a trashy old neck from a child's guitar and an oblong of red-coloured wood. Thought I'd make a cigar-box type guitar. I got a cheap lipstick pickup from China, decided to use some thre...