@robin Yes I’ve had that problem before, I bought a much bigger piece of Perspex to solve the problem. I look forward to seeing how this project of yours turns out, I love reusing/repurposing wood (or...

@johnnierox-boo Thanks John, my router was falling into the cavity doing the larger bit, I'll need to make a wider router base plate soon.

@robin That is some nice routing, very neat.

I've moved on a bit today and got some body cavities routed. Attachment : 20200828_184708.jpg

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Turned it all into this left handed T-type Barncaster. Attachment : E6E07010-8930-46DE-BEFA-F75C966AF23F.jpeg Attachment : E9D09C73-CF50-4641-AC07-928131666072.jpeg Attachment : 005...

I used a length of pine and some pallet boards to make a body blank. Attachment : 6D18931F-F9FB-4E75-B489-A40EB1C46A5B.jpeg Attachment : B90D112A-914C-49BF-B3AA-03DBBE3033E7.jpeg Atta...

In the spirit of building my fisrt guitar from scrap wood, I'm still searching for a bit of suitable neck timber. In my past working days we used a wood called Keruing for truck body floors. Any thoug...

I'm not in a Brazilian forest, but at Knapdale forest a bit further up the scottish west coast You lucky man @robin (well, apart from the midges and the rain!) - that's one of my favourite parts of t...

Excellent! Nothing wrong with this idea, I’ve made electric guitar bodies out of old pallet wood, I’ll put some pictures up.

@tv1010101 I'm not in a Brazilian forest, but at Knapdale forest a bit further up the scottish west coast from Mark. The pine is the last piece of a bed frame, the rest of it is now shelves in my bath...

I love the idea of finding a lump of wood under a caravan What he didn't say was that the caravan had been parked for 50years in a Brazilian wood yard ... ?

I love the idea of finding a lump of wood under a caravan (I mean, who hasn't?) and then turning it into a musical instrument, it's is just so amazing! I think we can all get so wrapped up in what may...

Its going to be a semi hollow body with a hardwood cap Great stuff - post plenty of progress pics. Apart from the fact that I love watching builds come together (and generally learn some useful tip...

@tv1010101 I did do the tap test, the pine sounded dead. The hardwood did have a ring, despite it being filthy, it had been a part of a boat's floor in a past life, so its well seasoned. Its going to ...

I love the idea of “here’s a bit of wood I found lying around, I’m going to make a guitar out of it”. Brilliant. I believe Leo Fender started out in much the same Hope you did the @markbailey tap t...

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Hi, After watching a few live you tube streams out of interest, ive found some pine and some unidentified hardwood under my caravan and started a practice build. I mentioned this in the comments on on...

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I’ve only used a bending iron as Covered in Marks course and using a template to work to rather than a mold. It worked out ok (see around 5min mark if you can’t be bothered looking at the whole vid)