Does the magic of carving a neck ever wear off ? Attachment : 20210105_164402.jpg

Simple Minds 1987 or 88 can’t remember now. Best one Guns and Roses at Wembley, Soundgarden supported, not long after Freddy Mercury had died and during the gig they did a Queen set.

Had to play IT support today for my lads first day back at school, remote learning and all that, so not much done. But sat in the kitchen and made a humbucker template from mdf, so not a total loss. C...

I’m in debt but it’s nothing to do with guitars, honest! @boo - I’m not in debt, despite trying hard by spending on guitars, tools, wood, .... 😆

It's pretty much a harmless hobby! @tv101 I’m in debt but it’s nothing to do with guitars, honest! 😁

@deej Yup keep believing it. I’m so hooked right now. I think about it constantly.

It's pretty much a harmless hobby! Keep believing that @TV101 😉

@clinton Thanks! It is endless learning and The journey achieving a succesful end result in guitar building s the mist satisfying feeling. I've got to the stage now that I now have that mythical num...

I'm intrigued. I wait with baited breath for the next installment. ?✌️???

Great story and awesome problem solving. It is endless learning and The journey achieving a succesful end result in guitar building s the mist satisfying feeling. I think that is why I enjoy it so muc...

Great story - and the end result is well worth the effort you went through to fix it! FYI: Image uploads now fixed but we too are looking at using Imgur in the future

Excellent work and a lot of lessons learned. I will definitely listen to your warnings and hope it sinks in to my brain.

Jack of all trades........and you mastered it. ✌️???

And this is how it looks today ... Of course, you can see the outline of the plug close-up, but the pickup and bridge do a pretty good job of hiding the different grain patterns between the plu...

(Photo uploads are now erroring, so linking instead) The next bit took a bit of precision cutting and sanding, and then the assistance of Mr Mallet. Now, lets trying routing out the pickup cavity...

Ahhh, look, *that's* where the pickup cavity was, originally. And, that's also where it really ought to be. Attachment : 20160317_123019.jpg And now, one nice clean - if rather large - hole i...

It was about a year later before I decided to try to fix the result of my inability to do basic maths. (Despite what my A-level certificates might say). My mis-rout had actually removed the cap more-...

Right then @markbailey @Russ, your breaths can now be unbaited ... Feeling rather chuffed with myself (did I mention that already) for rescuing this guitar, and also a little impatient to get on and g...

I was feeling quite chuffed with myself at this point. Yes - For me that is often the point at which things go pear shaped - I've learned to recognise this as a red flag (usually 10 secs too late)......

Attachment : 20150314_162008.jpg Here you can see the carve blends in the extra thickness. I was feeling quite chuffed with myself at this point. This point was just before the next point. The ne...