After the various suggestions, I ended up using ... Attachment : 20230122_161956sml.jpg Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil. Mainly because I found an unopened little bottle on a shelf! I remember wonde...

I was *very* young when those livestreams went out. I'm much more sensible now I've grown up. 😋

Those factors don't just affect my brain 🤣

Your WHAT? 🤣 😜 😝 😋

@nsj Maybe sandpaper on a brush handle Thats exactly how to do it. You just need different diameter brush handles to match the radius of the your many gouges.

d’oh 🙃 Between Covid and the meds, my brain is slightly less functional than usual. And “usual” isn’t a high bar …

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@russ Thanks Russ! Here are some pics from the "process" During the French polishing process I essentially filled the grain with the black dust I saved from the lightly sanding between coats of the...

I'm really pleased that I did a lot of Stewmac shopping when the exchange rate was close to £=$2, made things a lot more affordable!

@nsj Cheers Neil 🙂🎶🙏🎸

@nsj I had 2 planes (No4 and a 9 1/2 type of block plane ) for the last 2 years, now I suddenly have 38 😬 😎

Cheers Neil. If I wasn't so Techstupid I could give it a go. 🤣😂 🙂🎶🙏🎸

@nsj That burl guitar looks amazing. @tv101hindsight is fantastic though isn't it? So useful! NOT! Lol I once told an old managing director that my ambition was to develop my foresight to be as goo...

Attachment : image.png Very nice @nsj 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Spalted wood is beautiful. This is one I am working on at the moment ( well just need to finish it really ) ( spalted Tamarind ) Attachment : IMG_20221018_083201523.jpg

Yup, I imagine there would have been some interesting features in that tree. But, we’d just moved in, knew no-one in the area, and just needed the tree gone before any more bits of it fell on things ...

A tip for drawing curves freehand … rest your hand on the surface on the inside of the curve you want to draw, and sort-of-pivot your hand as you draw the curve. And do it in one flowing motion rathe...

Don’t often see these out in the wild.

@nsj Very nice Neil. Did you draw it out by hand. Very neat lines and curves. I'm trying to do some designs but I'm using compasses and french curves. My freehand drawing skills are not the best.
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We had a large (diseased) Ash tree cut down a few years ago. Rather sillily, I didn’t keep any of it for guitar wood 🙁 “here’s a guitar I made, from a tree I grew!”