@liebe depends on whether it’s glued or bolted, I like bolted pretty snug if possible but glue in needs room for the glue and to tight can cause real issues. Don’t want a lot of side to side slop but…   Read more»

@liebe Radian tools sell a planer bit to use with a router sled, it’s excellent. Just take small bites.   A thickness planer or planer table is a lot more likely to take chips out of figured wood. As for…   Read more»

@liebe make yourself a cheap router sled, I recently did that with a piece of contiboard and a couple of rails. Great for getting things straight. Then I’ll stick it through my thickness planer to get the other side done,…   Read more»

For gluing it’s better rough so 80 is good. I think the join disappears more and also glue gets a better hold, gets right into the fibres instead of floating on the surface.

Flat, no light showing through. And yeh it can be a pain in the muffler prepping wood but it has to be done. Handplane, sanding, router and straight edge etc

Well this turned out nice, sounds great, plays great but I’ll probably get a green arm at some point lol
 
Final video will be up in a day or two on my youtube, NSJGuitars
 

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And a bit more, tops glued on, edges filed and sanded over and my tele neck pickup ring finally arrived. Also copper on headstock and logo on trussrod cover. Drilled the temp screw holes I used to hold it together…   Read more»

As usual it’s all on my youtube including the cheek clenching latest episode lol
 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDaULtrlgQC52dOFtJnvCZA