I carefully clamped the neck into the body and checked the neck angle and side to side alignment - the top side of the neck pocket is where the error is - I have thinned down a spare piece of the cap ...

Still puzzled by my less than tight neck fit - just tried the neck in my neck pocket pattern and it is a very tight fit so what went wrong - could it be bad router cutters?

Now sanded to 180 grit - also started to level frets. Body and neck feeling quite smooth.....

Started tidying and sanding 80 grit now done - started 120 on the body.

A few more pics of the archtop build for your entertainment. The side bending went well but very slowly round my exhaust pipe bending tube. Thanks for the tip of thinning the maple for the tighter ben...

Managed to do the preparing the fretboard and adding dots......

Worked out where I went wrong - after I got the third facet nice and flat and the correct thicknesses I missed out evening up the facets before I added more facets....... Worked on it quite slowly wit...

Started the neck carve....... Scary...... First two facets Got the third facet sorted - thicknesses just about right then went on - the neck shape is a bit more D shaped then my two workshop builds -...

I had glued the two bits of my cap together at the start of the week - went back to it yesterday lunchtime and it had a distinct curve on it - it was very damp yesterday - very stupidly I pressed down...

Removed the clamps from the glued up body - the sound hole (not f hole?) still needs tidying - the join in the cap looks ok, there is one tiny hole but it will be under the bridge.

I managed to lift the drum sander out of the car and have plonked it down in the area of the garage that houses my compressor and airbrush. Connected up the shop vac and did a simple test - first on a...

Hello folks! It's been a while since I've had any time to play with my guitar making but things have eased a little at work now so it's back to having fun again! Any one tried making a composite or do...

This is really interesting, though I really have absolutely no advice to offer here. Having spent some time reading about the flame resistant properties of a synthetic aromatic polyamide polymer, I a...

Thought I would start the body. First bit was to rout out the cavity - the mahogany blank is about 41mm thick so the cavity needs to be 29mm deep. I created a pattern the edges are 15mm thick. Transfe...

Fillet glued and clamped. Planed - used nice new Luban block plane...

Rumbling on here in sunny (was today) Frocester - profiled the neck - was a bit of a coward at the nut end and stopped and started a bit short of the mark but otherwise OK. Will get in there with my...

I’m trying not to miss taking pics of stages - I totally missed taking any pictures of the cavity routs on my Tele - I had glued the cap in place and put the clamps on before I remembered....

Hi Bill Many thanks for posting these pics. I do find it interesting to see other people's builds, and their very tidy workshops. So the more the merrier please. I was rather timorous and didn't uploa...

The old iMac in the ‘workshop’ was scrapped from work because it couldn’t be updated to the current operating system - it is now running Neverware the Google OS so I can watch the Guitar Making videos...

Started...... Baileys now supply a 6mm truss rod - it needs the slot making a bit wider at the nut end as the adjuster is slightly more than 6mm. Headstock angle cut and truss rod slot widened at end...