This wouldn't be important if I was making a double cutaway or no cutaway - it’s only significant if the guitar is not symmetrical across the centreline. But if I’m making a concave mould, then the m...

It was at the point where we decided to use the mould as a jig, that I realised I’d made the most profound, blindingly obvious mistake right at the very beginning of this build. And no-one seems to ha...

Finally getting down to the actual building of this guitar! Unlike solid sides, these laminations have rough, uneven edges and are not yet cut to size. So one edge was sanded flat on a sanding board, ...

I never thought I’d say this, but - Happy Days 🙂

@nsj Because my sides aren’t profiled yet (and squint after the fingerboard mishap) I measured the facets 14.66mm out from the new centerline and then nudged them a couple of mm to the thumb side. But...

Thanks for the recommendations and encouragement folks. I’ve decided to go on with the neck as it is. This is my first ever full build and it’s effectively a prototype. I’d rather keep going and accum...

If I could rescue the neck and get a replacement fingerboard that might be the way forward. If I don’t, I still have to clean up the fingerboard edge where it almost got stuck to the caul. But of cour...

I used Titebond Original. Thing is, technically, the only thing that’s going to be squint is the tuner holes. The neck hasn’t been profiled and the body hasn’t been built yet, so everything with the ...

I asked GPTChat too: If you've glued your guitar fingerboard to the neck, and it's misaligned, there are a few things you can try to fix the issue: Remove the fingerboard: This is...

I glued and clamped the fingerboard to the neck yesterday. This morning, after taking the clamps and caul off, I find the fingerboard has twisted off axis by about 1.5mm. I reckon it happened like th...

Attachment : DB2CE612-9E44-427B-A6B7-496AEE6DE91A.jpeg Seriously disappointed. The body is plywood. For a tenner I would have expected two piece alder at the very least, and preferably mahogany. A...

That’ll do nicely. 🙂

The jack socket had a misaligned nut forced on. And the humbucker measures around 14.5k, which seems a little unnecessary. No idea what the woods are, but it’s quite heavy. Now I just need to save up ...

I’m quietly working on the guitar neck for my laminated semi hollowbody, and rushed off to Stranraer this morning to get some hardwood strips to make my fingerboard caul. On the way, we popped into a ...

@rocknroller912 I’ve put in some more insulation in the workshop and currently fitting surgical operation room style lighting. Once that’s done, Ill get back to working out what to do next to my lamin...

Don’t look at me mate. Not unless you need an invisible fillet down a bump in the middle.

I’m using three layers of knife-cut veneer and one sawn veneer for the face, all made by joining two pieces. Of the three knife-cut veneers, the second layer is perpendicular to the rest. On another b...

@rocknroller912 Another takeaway from this project is that two pack urea-formaldehyde resin is nothing like Titebond or other PVA based glues. It sets overnight but it cures over days, maybe weeks. A...

Having (relatively) successfully made two sides, a front and a back, I carted the whole lot home to rest in this old, cold, damp house. Mr Bailey was surprisingly insistent that I keep the sides bound...

Exactly what I was beginning to think. However, the advantage of the concave mould is twofold: Darren (Bagpress) said it was better that way You can make the mould the same size as the front or back,...