Ran into my first mishap. After a test run on the router table with some pine, my truss rod cavity got poked full of holes by a slippery router bit. turns out sapele is really really hard, and our colletes…   Read more»

Made some patterns on the laser cutter. I’m using fairly thin MDF hardboard, My plan is to use the router table rather than handheld so I believe the thin template shouldn’t pose a problem. I’m not showing all here but…   Read more»

I agree! Fortunately someone else at the space, more competent than myself, made that jig. Made my life easy. The digital angle ruler really helped too! 

Used a taper jig with the tablesaw for the first time. I think the headstock angle jig came out pretty good but we’ll see when we actually use it

Welcome! Are you signed up for any of the courses?

Yes – I believe it’s the same “build an electric guitar” course as what’s available here.

I finally found it on Udemy! It’s in the section on gluing the body blanks! Take the new razor blade and scrape it on a sharpening stone. It creates a burr which helps with scraping!
 
Cheers!

@nsj Very cool – and a great way to use all of your wood. I’m hoping to start finding old free tables to upcycle into guitars after I get a little more experience under my belt.

Great. Thanks for that.

@nsj does that go over the headstock as a laminate or is the actual headstock? did you make a scarf joint for it?

This is our design, within the overarching plan of Mark’s course

@brie are the links you are referring to on this site? I’ll have to go back and see if I can find them in udemy. I wasn’t successful in my first try.

Thanks so much for those specs

I’ve gone back now and if my math is correct it’s about 9 deg. Is it OK to be a range? Say 9-11? Perhaps my math is also off