@tv1; thank you Brosky...[ or Sis?? ] I'm excited about this new adventure, and my wife is very supportive - she's always been " a musician's wife" i think she's already thinking of whom we'll give a ...

@rocknroller912, @tv1, thanks for the "heads up" guys... I am going to look watch many videos as I begin my first build. I will remember that all questions are ok, and probably asked before. I have t...

@poco7 Welcome to the forum and remember there’s no such thing as a stupid question, which people often begin with. All questions are treated with respect apart from some of the long standing members ...

@poco7 - if you put an "@" symbol in front of someone's username when you mention them in a post, then it'll "tag" them, and they'll get an email notification that they've been mentioned in a post (as...

TV1. l'm going to have to review using this site properly, but 'til then, thank you for the advice and the greeting. Poco7

Welcome @poco7 Always great to have a new member join the community and share their history and their building experiences! Just follow the course, step by step (don't skip over any!) and take your ti...

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I'm a happily married Grandpa and [currently] reside in the Great Pacific Northwest, in Oregon, USA. Happy Trails, <>< Pocoranch7

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Well, for introductions, I'm going to use the handle Pocoranch7, my all time favorite band lads is/was a band called POCO, of which the [founding member] last man standing of the original band-mates, ...

Looks great to me @tej. 👍🙂 🙏🎸🎶🙂

@russ cheers, it’s good from that angle, on the left though it’s literally paper thin, now with a small chip too so I’ll need to reprofile the edge and wrap the headstock with something to protect whi...

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Selecting wood from the scrap pile for my practice build body. It’s 35 mm thick so I should be able to plane the holes out and join two bits. It used to be as school bench. Attachment : C30F6E82-D...

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@mattbeels Well spotted you have a keen professional eye. I got carried away with the fret saw and didn’t look at the pencil mark. I will have to think of a cover up but it’s only a practice build bef...

Can anyone spot the mistake. A 21 and 9/10ths fretboard @rocknroller912

I do like to do things the hard way. Radius the fretboard by hand. Can anyone spot the mistake. Thanks to @darrenking for instruction on how to sharpen the Nielsen scraper blade I’m cooking on gas now...

Being a tool junkie I bought a very nice carbide scraper burnisher from Workshop Heaven, but it seems you can use pretty much anything that's hard enough.

@tej Try a junior hacksaw blade to clean out the fret slots, it worked for me. A normal hacksaw blade might fit if you sand the sides off the teeth.

@robin Thanks, I’d just assumed it’d be too wide but I’ll give it a test!