@nsj Yes I know you meant flattening, I just wanted to point out that you can also do the radius with a plane. I never get good results with sanding alone and it takes too much time 🙂

Yup No 5 for a fretboard for me. Thickness it, Make it straight, cut the fretslots. Then, setup the hand plane for smoothing, and take a pass on both outer edges of the fretboard, repeat, and take a p...

ugh good luck finding that little block :-/ Maybe a good idea to see if you can find spare parts for this?

@jamesbisset awesome to see you are working on another guitar. Looking forward to see more 🙂

tv101 was asking the same thing a few days ago [ here ]. The consensus was 10 mm thickness

Haha , yeah maybe 🙂 though, I am willing to bet you will not like to do that commute every week 😀The CMB is located in Puurs, roughly in the middle of Belgium

Yes it is @Robin! And once you start to get it right , you feel like the king of the world for the rest of the day.Together with that, I also developed a very profound and severe case of GAS for sharp...

Then we finetune the shape of the heel, by pressing the neck against the body, with a strip of sanding paper between, pulling the sandpaper back and forth over the body shape. Then the neck is glued ...

I've been pretty quiet on the forum the last couple of months because I had so much things going on , that I barely had the time keeping up reading through all the new replies and topics.Last summer, ...

@tv101 Nice work! it looks great. 🤩 🙂 👍

Nice to see some new things going on !

I think, the thickness of the sides is probably more important during routing, due to the risk of tear out. Once you managed to route it , the thickness does not matter too much anymore, I think. Glue...

That looks beautiful, makes me wanna look to use it for a neck sometime too now. Thanks for the inspiration/tip 🙂

Your WHAT? 🤣 😜 😝 😋

I ll clean ‘em up but sharpen as I need them.. 🙂

I made a plane till for my iron planes., The wooden planes will be stored just above that on a still to make shelf.But as you can see, plenty of room for expansion 😉 😜 😀 ǹ...

I don’t ! I bought a couple of planes, when I got an offer to buy a set of 24 old wooden planes, mainly moulding planes and rabbet planes for cabinet and furniture making .. I just could not resist th...

Spalted wood is beautiful. This is one I am working on at the moment ( well just need to finish it really ) ( spalted Tamarind ) Attachment : IMG_20221018_083201523.jpg

@nsj I had 2 planes (No4 and a 9 1/2 type of block plane ) for the last 2 years, now I suddenly have 38 😬 😎

Ah I dont hve the circular cutter yet, but the router parts are on order, I am making my own as designed by Paul Sellers 🙂 Speed is not always needed, I can buy perfectly squared wood, but planing and...