Thank you all. Well chuffed. @russ, yes mate. It's a lefty. @bpower, yeah I like the back aswell. Still got some of that species of wood left. Thinking of using it for an electric project next year.

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Finally, finally COMPLETE!!! This build has been on my mind for over a year. I have always been interested in woodwork. Built arcade cabinets, units and tools for my workshop. I decided I...

Headstock veneer glued, just need to get a reamer for the tuner holes, after that it's onto leveling & radius the fretboard. It's incredibly cold in the workshop so keeping it hidden from my son a...

@tv101 That is utterly stunning

I think I have sorted the headstock now. Olive wood thicknessed to 2mm and I have also thicknessed a piece of walnut which matches the neck. With both together I think it will work out when I get to t...

@robin , Thanks Robin, that's a no bad idea. I was thinking of altering the shape of the headstock slightly and I have scrap I can use to test that out and see how it looks. Will try that this week. 🙂

Thank you Russ, Robin & tv1, That's put my mind at ease. I've still to glue the fretboard anyway so will work on that and in the meantime I will practise blending on scrap before doing anything w...

Hello again all Hope you are all doing well. Just a quick question, I am building an OM acoustic. I was thicknessing the headstock and I was doing my last pass when my router bit slipped and took off ...

Finally got enough nerve to get my router out and do the mortise in the body. I can now follow the course as normal now. The picture is not the best but everything lines up perfect. Thank you again ...

@rocknroller912 & @Bpower Thank you both for such a quick reply to my topic. You are brilliant!!! I should have added this at first too. I had been using the plans for the OM build from stewmac to...

Hello all, I really can't say just how much I would appreciate some of your divine feedback/advice. I am kind of stuck on my first acoustic build. I wasnt sure where to put this. Apologies if this is ...

@rocknroller912 Yeah possibly, when I got the slab of olive wood it looked great, left it for months before milling it down for bookmatching. Thats when I noticed issues. I guess the problems of buyin...

@rocknroller912 Thanks Mate, yeah I think that now too. I now know to never use olive wood again. Hidden cracks and defects that have taken hours to tidy up.haha

@markbailey Cheers Mark, aye the website is great. Thank you.

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