Was reassebling this fella with it’s lovely new neck
 

 
Then I noticed this!
 

 
I know it’s in my little room somewhere but the place is a tip! FFS! 🤣 

Today I got on with the neck carve and headsatock refining and of course the volute. Followed Marks method this time, soooo much easier. I’ve always used a facet method but one that involved a fair bit of measuring and…   Read more»

Spot of radiusing this afternoon, only took 20 – 30 minutes with the lovely long beam and 80 grit.
 

@tv101 bet his cakes are awful 🤣

Got a bit more done today, headstock all shaped
 

 
And a lot of the neck shape roughed out, carving the back and radiusing the board next I think
 

Meant to say too that my new file arrived, I have a couple of iwasaki, shinto etc but liked the look of the Mark Bailey special! I’ll be trying it out on the neck carve.
 

Got the pieces all planed so they line up nice

And got a lot of the excess chopped off the neck section, glued a couple of extra bits on to fit the headstoack shape, should get that all shaped…   Read more»

Used a bit of amber stain mixed with the thinned down polyurethane, just enough to make it pop
 

Operation new neck is almost done, a bit of finish sanding then onto the actual finish. Abalone fret markers, hosco glow in the dark side dots. Got the frets in last night.
 

@tv101 don’t think it’ll need much, trees been standing dead a while and I’ve burnt the higher branches already. Give it a couple of months in the house I reckon.

@russ no extras bud, they maybe charge UK vat when buying. I noticed Thomman and other EU shops do that too. They charge the correct vat and you get no extra charges. The radius beam cost me just under £60…   Read more»