More work this weekend. Not sure about the valute, something to pay more attention to next time I think. Attachment : EA749CDD-FDFF-4335-9D16-8D2AAD2AAE05.jpeg Attachment : AB5CC0F6-973C-4...

Lovely work 🙂🙂🙂

Neck looking good and the headstock isn’t too pointy.

Attachment : IMG_0554.jpg I’ve got this far with the neck

Gold Het set for pickups then tone pros tuneonatic bridge with some Harley Benton locking tuners

Awesome @cheesewhisk! What is your plan for the neck?

Looking good - what hardware are you going for?

Coming along nicely @cheesewhisk 🙏🎸🙂🎶

It's been a hot minute since I had chance to do any work on this but I took Friday off and really went for it. There's a lot of clean up due to some router slip ups but it's not total carnage and I'm ...

Attachment : profilecut1.jpg spent some time making the front and back profiles for key points (bridge, waist and longitudinal. Now for the fun bit. I'm carving the profiles into the wood using a ...

Looking good @jmcmi93888 🙏🎶🙂🎸

Attachment : steppedplates.jpg Today's offering is the front and back (planed to 17mm thick) with the perimeter reduced to 5mm using my router in a stand and carefully running the edge past the bl...

The carbon truss rod is purely a stiffener 4mm wide x 7mm deep as I am unsure of the potential for elm to flex even in a short length. I am thinking about 22mm thickness at the nut as well . Too much ...

@jmcmi93888 Nice work, is the truss rod in a neck that short simply a static bar or can you actually get an adjustable truss rod that size?

@jmcmi93888 looking good. Slow is good (fast too) 🙂

Attachment : plates.jpg Progress has been slow. I now have the back and front plates planed and bookmatched as best as I can given the fairly open grain. Attachment : neck.jpg Also the neck...

@jamesbisset You’ve certainly stirred the pot with this topic, all you have to do now is compose a rag time tune and call it the Oily Rag.

And turns out that an oily rag means different things to different people (including @mattbeels). Who knew! He’s Germerican. 😏

An Oily Rag in my workshop is one that was used to apply finishing oil. Thanks Mark, and thanks to everyone else. All really useful info. And turns out that an oily rag means different things to diff...

@rocknroller912 salmon, trout, makrel? In @JamesBisset's case, duck oil will be more appropriate than fish oil.