Looking stellar! Right on track.

Some actual progress today, albeit on the practice body. Routed out the pickups and the control cavity, it is still mighty cold for a prolonged session in the garage and I am still on IT home learning...

@boo, great answer. I like the fact that you are building this one first as a 'practice' and then lending it to the customer to try and then make adjustments / alterations as necessary. Obviously not ...

Is this your second build or second Bandsman? @peebee Yeah it can make it easier but I like it when I get a bit of artistic licence too. If you look at this one on paper, it looks simple but there ar...

The Bosch GKF is perfectly adequate for the job. Cheers Edwin. Much appreciated advice. 🙏🎶🎸🙂

The Bosch GKF is perfectly adequate for the job. Like mentioned before, go easy, take small cuts and you'll be fine. Got one myself and build a Bandsman with it... 🙂 I also have a green Bosc...

My Firebird neck is about 2.5mm thicker than normal - it feels fine - I worked on the basis that with a through neck if you make it too thin you are really screwed but too fat and you can remove more ...

Thanks everybody!

I see what you are saying about the truss slot. Add a veneer on your headstock and will be all good.

I tend to do 22mm-24mm for neck taper. Just my preference.

14-16 mm thickness for headstock. For neck, 21mm on first fret, 23mm on 12th fret all in accordance of the fretboard already attached.

Make sure you do a nik test before surface routing all the way through. Learned that lesson the hard way. Beautiful looking neck you got there.

14-16mm you are safe

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Dave, if you haven’t already seen it, BigD guitars, on YouTube does this very thing when restoring an old Les Paul. Here’s the link.

Looks great, with a customer specified design I imagine that this in many respects makes the process easier in that the decisions are made but challenges you to do different layouts and configurations...

Hi Bill! New Jersey is a unique and crazy place! Check it out when you can! -D

yeah that's lovely Darren!

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ok thanks Darren may still go ahead with nitro then - i'll try another test piece first cheers Rich (not Robin) 🙂