Today was cavity cover, arm and belly carves and drilled all the holes
 

In the shop they have the radian bit that size, pricier but superb cutters
 

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@robin he got the idea from Charvel. Doing the angled area was fine, making the plate fit was fine, making actual socket fit with a lead plugged in was less fine! Lol

Litle update, got the pickup cavities done and the control panel. Recessed for the nobs because it’ll have a couple of push push pots and they need room to go down to pop up, this means I can have the…   Read more»

@russ Intro is me and the track with the bass update is me, sure I said in the bass vid lol. I just use a drum loop but all the guitar stuff is me.

A bit of bishing bashing and boshing today, got the bridge sorted, alignment is spont on too which is always a relief. Of course I got the laser out and done the logo.
 

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@liebe the problem with plunge is you can go to deep and start hitting the wood with the collet. For bits you can go with trend for reasonable but if spending a bit more I’ve got to say radian, they’re…   Read more»

@liebe Longer router bits, I do mine with a palm router including floyd rose routs etc. Most routers don’t have a huge plunge but you use a bunch of different length bits then just swap them as you go.  …   Read more»

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.