@tv101 do you believe carbon rods actually do anything? That somehow they’ll stop a neck from twisting if it wants to? Personally I think it’s a fad to sell us guitar people more stuff we don’t need lol

Yeh what Mark says, I do all the routing while the body is flat then carve after. Whether actual carve top or just doing arm and belly carves.

If the neck is parallel, the bottom of the fretboard is usually about 2mm or so higher than the top of the body. With this one I wanted the fretboard at body height so I had to do a slight…   Read more»

Just buy 10mm acrylic off ebay and make a bigger base, works great. I’ve done both my trim routers and one I can clamp upside down for doing small jobs. I have the same template set too, used it a…   Read more»

@tej Ash makes a beautiful neck, done a few myself with zero issues but I always do a volute which may or may not help. Northern/european ash. It’s the denser , heavier hard one. Southern ash aka swamp ash isn’t…   Read more»

Grab a gotoh nut, they’re cheap but superb, front or rear mount and you can get a 43mm. Still keep most of the width that way. Might be an easier option because you could sand most of the extra away…   Read more»

@boo I’ve sold 5 but still have a few kicking about lol
 

And finished, more or less lol. Just got to do a bit more setting up, intonation, string height etc.
 

I was thinking of doing a bass next, haven’t done one yet.

@robin sounds like the switch is dirty, before pulling apart try some violent switching or switch cleaner then some violent switching. Bad switch is the only thing that makes sense otherwise the neck would still work in middle position.  …   Read more»