Just want to say hey and ask a question. What size of band saw blade should I use!?! I have a 14” porter cable saw. Would like to mention I work from the kitchen! lol Attachment : 91CA7E7E-9840-...

Yeah @boo. I find everyone else needs me to do something during my precious guitar building time. 🤣 🎸🎶🙏🙂

That is how I do it. On my last build I cut a shallow slot (~0,5mm) with the exact thickness of the nut, and then just shaped the nut and dropped it in the slot.

@nsj I found I needed to do this and was grateful of the length of the neck blank. I guess if you're making your own nut you can adapt the depth of the nut, within reason, too.

I tend to cut my angle then plane it to the line before adding the fretboard or chopping the end off the neck. That way I can move the fretboard back if needed. I'd imagine it might be you safest opti...

Hi Kalimar, You’re right, you just have to watch carefully, measure the amount of material that needs to be removed and adjust the depth of cut accordingly and in small increments. I stopped before th...

@kalimar not yet

Hi there! My name is Arif Patel and I am a developer from Dubai. I have a passion for creating innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the digital world. Love to make gui...

Are the gouges deep? Be mindful that when you carve the neck that it does not poke through. You pretty much have 1/8-3/16 of an inch thickness left after installing the truss rod. Might be best just t...

@kalimar I like routing the trussrod channel while the blank is still squared, I use a fence on my router to follow the edge of the blank. Then for the actual neck I make the fretboard and once it'...

@kalimar Bummer! If the shank on the router bit is dirty or scratched it can work itself loose. Sometimes you can hear it happen and manage to stop in time.

@kalimar That taper jig looked more complicated than the whole guitar build. 😀 Good tools does half the job, as we say in Sweden.

Hello Everyone! I hope you all are doing good. I am Julio Herrera a freelance developer from Italy. I am new to this guitarmaking community, I love to play guitar and create guitars I am on my learnin...

@kalimar old maple and mahogany floor boards make nice necks, just trim off the nail holes. For the body any hardwood will do really, just need to be mindful of the weight, Some woods are really heavy...

@kalimar Over as laminate, it's about 1.5mm thick or so but I like to match the face of the headstock to the body wood.

I often stick scraps together to make bigger pieces for cavity covers and headstock plates like this one. Attachment : 20230519_010153.jpg

Attachment : A26361C2-16C8-4FDE-9040-BBED22D11F40.jpeg The specs for most of the jigs are given on the relevant lesson page either in “what you need” or in “dimensions”. I made the headstock angle...

@tv101 Offcuts of wood & Recycling Materials

Welcome to the builds. It does not disappoint. It is very gratifying!

@kalimar Welcome to the group. It's a great course, easy to follow. I'll be signing up for the courses again soon to continue my acoustic build.