Not much time today but I did my usual upper fret access carve using a bowl and dish router bit.

Ok, couple of things. First, I’m a plonker lol. String height is actually less than 2mm at the 12th which is perfect and also when I did a demo in my vid I wasn’t using a bass amp plugin, I…   Read more»

Got the neck pocket done today, sorted most of the shaping around it and also did the neck heel
 

Headstock sorted and main neck carving done, I’ll sort the heel once I’ve done the neck pocket.

@nortski string splay is fine, most 3 aside headstocks have it to varying degrees with zero issues. Straighter string pull is generally more desired if fitting a non locking trem because then you want the strings to glide as smooth…   Read more»

Finished at last, well ish lol. Found a high fret I missed, I often miss just the one. Anyway sorted that, still need to lower the nut a little too. Other thing is the string height is about 3mm at…   Read more»

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I always seem to get through using the contact us form on the shop, I think it’s Carol that usually replies.

@liebe I was concerned about slot depth, slots being clean, getting to much glue on and it choking the slots etc etc lol
Might try the acetone next time. Supposed to work well and of course it doesn’t fill the slots

@liebe For sure, without it you can use a regular fret saw lol   What glue did you use? I found out the hard way that wood glue doesn’t work with plastic binding lol. Superglue was fine though and didn’t…   Read more»

Well it’s taken a while but the finish is done at least. I’ll get it all assembled in the next day or two. Thanks to this forum I found an old post about using osmo poly x which helped great!
 

Frets are in and side dots done, next up will be sorting the headstock and carving the neck.
 

@liebe I got one of those hosco fret slot cleaning saws, seems to work ok

@wolframmalukker sounds like you need to clear some space, I’d try and just focus on one, get it over the finish line then the next and so on. I find it can get to stressful spreading yourself to thin.  …   Read more»