Today I finished the little bridge, lots of knife carving 😊 The little flowers are 7x7mm , just to give an idea how small and finicky this bridge is I m sorry but the photos are not in chrono...

this week I worked a bit on the back of the bridge (pear wood ) Attachment : 14DDC44D-FF56-4FF3-A0B8-7D94F54BB6CD.jpeg Attachment : E835A4DF-7BFA-4C32-B4D4-F4E5FEF12AC8.jpeg Attachme...

Last week, I worked on the rosette some more. I glued parchment on the back, using fish glue and cut out the details with a punch and a scalpel knife. Attachment : 493F91F6-D082-4708-BEEE-219B7F75...

Last week I finished the carving of the rosette, well the major part of it. Next up is gluing parchment and cutting the refined details for the rosette in the parchment. But that is for in a few weeks...

Yes I am, wonderful stuff and 99% the reason why this system works so good, I think.

I have the Mirka roundy kit. It is still manual sanding, but you can hook it up to a vacuum cleaner and make your sanding work virtually dust free. I am amazed how good it actually works and , while i...

It should not chip if the blade is sharp enough, but yes, it is always possible and a good solution to mitigate the possibility of tear out 👍 So ideal order: plane to thickness, radius with ...

@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 🙂