@russ yeah it doesn’t look particularly hard or time consuming. There seems to be a hell of a lot of specialist tools that just aren’t necessary unless you’re trying to produce a lot of instruments in...

Suddenly, I feel nervous .... @tv101 🤣🤣🤣🤣 No, don’t worry, I’m not going to paint your stuff in pink flake. I’m serious, I wouldn’t do anything like that, I’m not goin...

It’s the Strat I’m doing in pink flake. Are you sending me the cases for your effects pedals, Suddenly, I feel nervous ....

But, if you are, leave it in primed state for a while. If it's going to sink into the join, then fix it whilst still primed, before you paint it in pink flip-flop glitter. @tv101 It’s my standard pr...

Soooo... no real answer? @mattbeels So what do you call a skip then?

@mattbeels thanks, don’t have an arbour press so that’s not really an option, I’ve heard of people mounting a caul in a drill press though not sure that’s a good plan for my cheap drill. Like the idea...

I imagine that you can do it as quickly with a hammer as you can with a fret press @tej......by the time you set up the press you could have a few of the frets in with a hammer. 🙏😕&#x...

What are people’s experiences with using a fret hammer vs a fret press? I’ve seen Mark’s lesson on installing frets and it looks straightforward, appreciating his experience may have a lot to do with ...

I like the vintage just before dinner look. @mattbeels haha, yeah that sentence came out weird. 😎

I try to normalise the data I input so everyone else can make sense of it much easier (I hope). You've never tried searching this forum - even for something that you posted yourself - have you! I don...

And that's a good way of keeping a record that you can check back to in later builds. @tv101 Yep, that’s why I do it, not just for myself but for everyone else, present and future guitar builders. We...

Start a new thread every time you start building a new guitar. And that's a good way of keeping a record that you can check back to in later builds. Many times I've reached the stage of doing somethi...

Tonight , I applied stain ( amber, brown and yellow ) to give my neck an vintage look just before dinner. And this is how it looks after a coat of shellac I put on just an hour ago. Attachment : ...

The rest - as you say - are probably more generic mahogany/sapele (the darker ones). Not sure what the lighter ones are, but don't look to be anything super-special. Yeah I think I will try to keep ...

It looks like you've got a couple of interesting pieces of timber there. The second one looks like walnut with a bit of flame in it, and the fourth one (counting from the left) also looks to have some...

@koendb Wow! Have fun. 🤘😁🤘🎸

Got some wood to practice using my handplaners and make scarf joints, etc...It is roughly cut and some pieces are probably unusable as a real neck because of knots. Maybe a few laminated necks with wh...

My concern is that because it’s wood and there is a joint, one bit of wood going into another, it may become visible over time. For sure, that's always a risk. But it's the same risk when you joint ...

Boo - why would it not work? Unless the finish sinks into the join, or sinks differently into the different wood, then surely - once painted - you're not going to be able to see any variation in the ...

Why do you weirdos guys call it a skip? @mattbeels We call it a skip because that’s what it’s called. In life, people, places and objects have “names”. This is done so we, the people, know how to d...