As Harry Enfild once said, “You don’t wanna do it like that” 🤣 

I’ve used beech, ash, oak, cherry and walnut so far. All been really good.
 
Only tricky one is oak because I did a carve top and it’s very hard lol

@russ thanks bud, it’s so much nicer, the whole fit and finish is vastly improved and now I could happily put it up for sale

@benjaminschwillens82gmail-com 
 
Cheers

@liebe the finish was kinda tacky, floyd sat fairly high above the recess and the recess rout wasn’t very good. That one was my first carve top too I believe. I prefer to bring the recarve further out near the…   Read more»

@liebe surfacing bit from radian tools, use it then give it a quick sand and it’s ready to go. I use 80 grit on a hard piece of wood.

Meant to include a before pic of how the guitar used to look
 

@brie Looks really nice bud, the neck wood looks a bit mahogany ish but not sure.