Might put an A3 whiteboard and some dry wipe pens into the 'workshop' to put notes onto - better still if I can find one that also takes magnets........

@frocesterbill With dimensions I really agree on this point. I've just binned a whole load of Post-its with various important dimensions scribbled over them. I've also got bits of wood with my aide-me...

Now I have the bits trimmed from the body I can see what the oil finish will look like - only two coats so far and I only gave it a little bit of a sand....

Made the templates for the control cavity and have cut the hole in the back. I followed the revised order and cut out the body. Will do the rout another day as the workshop is chilly today.

Body remarked - pickup routs done to 14mm - control holes drilled. Realised that I haven’t made a control cavity pattern yet.

The body blank and cap were 49mm thick - have used my drum sander - removed about 1mm from the cap and 3 from the mahogany - needed to smooth the back because although I protected the front from clamp...

Just had an email from Axminster - they have recently introduced/re-introduced an upgraded version of my drum sander so can supply most of the spares so that is good news going forward.

Cheers Darren - I am really enjoying the build. Working with the videos from Mark is great - think I in retrospect I would actually make notes from the video for dimensions - I am sure that I watche...

Hi Bill, This is all looking great, love the Rickenbacker style sound hole. I had one of the Axminster drum sanders for many years and it was a great bit of kit. The two things that I did to mine wer...

Managed to do the preparing the fretboard and adding dots......

Worked out where I went wrong - after I got the third facet nice and flat and the correct thicknesses I missed out evening up the facets before I added more facets....... Worked on it quite slowly wit...

Started the neck carve....... Scary...... First two facets Got the third facet sorted - thicknesses just about right then went on - the neck shape is a bit more D shaped then my two workshop builds -...

Removed the clamps from the glued up body - the sound hole (not f hole?) still needs tidying - the join in the cap looks ok, there is one tiny hole but it will be under the bridge.

I had glued the two bits of my cap together at the start of the week - went back to it yesterday lunchtime and it had a distinct curve on it - it was very damp yesterday - very stupidly I pressed down...

I managed to lift the drum sander out of the car and have plonked it down in the area of the garage that houses my compressor and airbrush. Connected up the shop vac and did a simple test - first on a...

Clamps removed - fretboard successfully glued - ran a straight edge along the fretboard and it is nice and straight.....

Just bought an old, but working, Axminster MSRS Drum Sander. Saw it on eBay - only 4 miles away - the plate on it says 1999. Will need to sort out a hose adapter for it and find it a space.

Fretboard glued on - clamped until the morning. I glued the two halves of the Ovangkol cap together - I now have some sash clamps. When the glue had dried I sanded the back with 60 and front with 80...

Shape of hole nearly right - what is the best way to cut it?

I have glued the two pieces of the cap together. What is the best way to cut the not f hole - it is a back to front Rickenbacker shape - a curved triangle - will post a picture in the morning..