What I do is to make the front of the heel about 1mm or so lower than the back. Then I clamp the neck to the body and run a straight edge over the frets. Measure at the scale line and measure my heel ...

Hey up Scott, I'm about 60 miles or so further north of Edinburger. Welcome to your new life of being poor but surrounded with guitars lol

Friend asked me to build him an explorer. Turned out decent. Pickguard is ash epoxied to 1mm aluminium then sprayed black, headstock plate is also ash sprayed black. He has a cnc which he was able to ...

@boo cherry sir? This is yew sir, no not you yew! 🤣

It's resin, I get mine from epodex. I make the body blank and if like this one the cracks aren't very big I rout them bigger. Then I build a frame around it to dam the resin, mix then pour. Sometimes ...

Finally popped my 7 string cherry. Based on the black machine b7, went with their alternative headstock. One piece Brazilian mahogany body with yew and resin top. One piece Brazilian mahogany ne...

Hi again culbinguitars, it sounds a bit like the resin might not have cured right through. I've had it seem hard on the surface but turned into a mess as you describe after trying to sand. The epodex ...

@somethingnicer yeh just something I noticed with mine but mine isn't an actual dremmel so was wondering if yours was because that would make it a bit crap for routering. Last thing you'd need is the ...

@somethingnicer no I mean the chuck in the extension, it's not as stable as the chuck in the actual tool. Like it has a bit of play compared to the chuck in the actual tool which is fairly rigid.

@SomethingNicer is the extension as stable as the actual dremmel? Like in my other brand tool the extension where you insert the bits has a tiny bit of play whereas the actual chuck of the tool is sol...

@brie it smelled way worse! But thankfully it's all dried and sealed now. I don't know why you put wire wool on your chips though 🤣

@liebe walnut is nice, not to heavy, same with cherry. Made a full start entirely from cherry. Both lighter than limba or at least black limba, posibbly similar to the likes of brazillian mahogany. Yo...

As Harry Enfild once said, "You don't wanna do it like that" 🤣

So a friend asked about me building him an electic ukelele, I think you can tell by the pics I like super strats lol Sapele body and neck, ebony fretboard, yew and resin top. Went with a 17 inch sca...

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...

@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 Attachment : 20230308_162921.jpg Full build can be found on my youtube channel too