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Accurate measurements are a learning curve. Mark was demonstrating recently how to fit position marker dots and showed how to double check before drilling with two different ways. This would be a good thing to work on.

@koendb Looks like you have the same type of metal fret cutting jig as me. The saw needs to be quite tight in the rollers or it can go off 90 deg. I’m assuming you have the fretboard stuck with…   Read more»

Hi @koendb, I’m probably still a few steps away from being able to offer them for sale and I need to get the cost of the parts down, specifically the motor system and the shaft, if they are going to…   Read more»

🤔 I’ll leave it for @tv101 to announce it when the time is right @koendb. 🤣 
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Laminated neck with a bandsman body shape and cap or drop top. yes a laminated neck! @rocknroller912 @koendb I’d been thinking about a laminated neck.  As it happens, one of my “tidy the workshop” jobs yesterday was to cut a…   Read more»

I think I’ve got to do some inlay work somewhere @koendb
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Binding too perhaps
 

Like that combination @koendb – good luck spraying and avoiding the flies & bugs! Final coat went on today! Did manage to catch some dust in the last coats, so I will need to sand those out a bit I…   Read more»

Like that combination @koendb – good luck spraying and avoiding the flies & bugs!

@Russ You posted Inventing The American Guitar twice 😉 Anyway.. Which one(s) do you consider to be must haves? Oops @koendb. I’ll delete one.  I think that you can’t go wrong with the Dan Erlewine books but I think the…   Read more»

@koendb
It’s fun getting new parts and gear! Nothing wrong with gathering parts before the glue up. Nope, not at all…

Lookin’ good there @koendb, nice color! 👍

Cheers @koendb.   And, I love the contrasting, wooden scratch plate. No nasty black plastic here @Boo!  That was some offcut from the body, thicknessed (or thinned) down to around 3mm, jointed and then stained.   What the pic doesn’t…   Read more»

Perfect! that would be for a shell pink nitro finish to complete my vintage color collection ( this guitar and my modded Ibanez RG420 in Surf Green @koendb Oooooooooo…….. Nice Ibanez, I love Ibanez, one of my favourite guitar manufacturers….   Read more»

That looks amazing!

@koendb Thanks man. 👍

I have Clear Satin to finish this. So not a high gloss finish. I dont think I would be achieving a good result with high gloss, due to my mediocre prep work ( sanding ). @koendb Oh yeah, it will…   Read more»

Lovin’ it @koendb. 💙 
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In the meanwhile I did my final coat for today and indeed I am trying to do it in  patterns.This is how it looks like  right now: @koendb Yeah that looks really good, nice and even with no runs. Nice…   Read more»

Pickups have arrived already!
I just have the feeling I am forgetting something 🤔 
ah yeah! I have to glue my body blanks first!

@koendb Yes, this happens a lot in guitar building. 😂

Started with the color this morning. 2 layers done, another one in half an hour and then letting it dry until tomorrow.It is not yet 100% covered. @koendb Looking good. Another tip: Try and not follow the same spraying pattern…   Read more»

This is one of my favourite guitar colours @koendb…… Daphne Blue? Sonic Blue? Looking good. 
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