Nice work @bpower keep it coming!

@bpower tidy work 🙂

The neck is roughed out. Now on to the body. 🙂 Attachment : 20210621_202849.jpg Attachment : 20210622_194350.jpg Attachment : 20210622_204740.jpg Attachment : 20210622_203924....

@tej I wouldn’t worry about 0.5mm as long as all 6 strings line up with the pick up pole pieces. To make a thin shim start with a bit longer than you need and clamp it down. Mark the size you need and...

I think given the error being quite small a slightly offset bridge will be preferable to laminating the socket and rerouting it as I think that has more likelihood of going horribly wrong. If it is j...

So I’m a little less concerned about this now, in terms of the fretboard and the strings running parallel to the edges it lines up fairly close, the bridge will need to be maybe .5mm off the centre li...

@koendb set neck, not sure how I’d go about making a shim thin enough! Anyway I should check it against the path of the strings and bridge first and check how big the problem is, sorry, should have do...

what are my options to correct that, if any? If the neck pocket is not straight, you can shim and reroute if needed. Is it a bolt-on or set neck?

So after putting some straight edges either side of the fretboard with the neck in the socket it’s a few mm off centre at the bridge, plan today is to temporarily put the nut on and run threads for th...

@tej Will give that a try this afternoon and let you know if it works

@rocknroller912 could you use some tool wax on it, presuming the result would be sanded it should cause issues?

Nice @rocknroller912!

First attempt at making a sound hole ring cut from a flat sheet salvaged from the off cuts of acoustic sides and joined together. After it was scraped down I decided that it needed purfling either sid...

@koendb I always wear a strap with the guitar quite high so I can have the neck at a high angle so there’s no strain on my wrist. On the rare occasion I don’t use a strap I’ll have it one my left leg ...

@tej I have the same issue with one of my builds. the cutaway should be a lot lower. It is also difficult to balance on my lap because of the weird curve at the bottom of the lower horn. It looks lik...

You could almost be fooled into thing this Is going to be a guitar. I’ve got a small design flaw on my part, the lower horn, despite taking more of the thickness out is still in the way at the last fe...

@robin turns out that I needed very little in terms of carving for the belly and wrist carves so they’re both quite slight. In might need to carve the lower horn out a little more to allow better acce...

That is looking good @tej! you got it under control 👍

Coming along nicely @tej 👍😁 🎶🎸🙂🙏

More routing and rounding, also have the holes for the wiring, socket and strap pins done (no pic of that bit!) Onto carving next, happy days. 🙂 Attachment : 7CB47523-BFA6-4DF5-9B80-B0E300...