Welcome along, I already started building before arriving here but have since been watching Mark's lives on youtube and learnt even more. I'm kinda obsessed with building guitars, it's my main vise lo...

We're down to 2 cats at the moment, did have 6 cats and a dalmatian at one point lol

@russ it's fine, I'm on top of the hill lol

@liebe It's designed to go straight on wood, it's a hardwax oil. This guy uses hardwax oil over stain without anything else. Same sort of thing, just different brand. Try it on a test piece.

@russ cheersw buddy, so far so good. I had to use two bin bags to get my neck out to the shed to do more work though lol. Normally I can wrap a guitare neck in a jacket but this thing is sooooo long! ...

@liebe Sweet T guitars on youtube would be the guy to check out regarding using it with stains. I tend to just go natural. And yeh, matt/satin is where I'm at. Mine came from that place

@rathius straight edge is a good idea, used that method to cut the slot for the switch on my strat build, worked great. Also with plunge base, got the elmer one which is identical to all of them lol. ...

@rathius I was thinking like a tree, dragon etc. Could fill with resin, getting the hang of that now. The secret is a tiny amount of pigment, then you can get patterns in the resin instead of a solid ...

@rathius A dark wood headstock plate is perfect for hiding everything though! Superglue and sawdust, brilliant on the likes of ebony or that. I can tell you now I'm not that good with the dremmel r...

Frets in, side dots in, fret ends filled and the main neck carve is done. Next up will be some headstock work I think Attachment : 20231017_165736.jpg Attachment : 20231018_164243.jpg ...

@liebe looking good, the osmo poly x stuff it brilliant imo, bought some not long ago to try out and very happy with the results. I don't see it in the pics but if stacking the heel use different p...

@rathius I've got the neje 3 plus, have been thinking about doing a full on fretboard job but so far just use it for the headstock logo. I leave the power fairly low then just keep running the laser o...

Yeh he's a proper nosey git lol Anyway, board radiused to 12 and got the fret markers in Attachment : 20231016_175342.jpg

@boo it would take an awful lot of soldering to get any harm from the lead, not nearly big enough amounts. It's like a lot of things, 2k spray etc, the danger can come from using it all day everyday.

@boo Heat the item, add the solder lol. And use leaded, that lead free stuff is naff, I can do everything with a simple 30 watt iron using leaded stuff.

Got the trussrod slot routed, headstock angle done and fretboard glued and clamped. I like cutting the headstock angle wide of the line with the bandsaw then using a handplane to bring it into place. ...

Dear Mark, don't cut 26 fret slots on my bass fretboard, it just confuses me 🤣 Anyway, fretboard from Mark and Carol arrived so I can crack on with the bass. Also got the 9.5mm radian rou...

So it's defo gonna be a tele! Attachment : 20231010_170627.jpg

@boo mahogany body with yew top. I look for the really gnarly bits then saw them in half wirh my little old bandsaw. Attachment : 20230930_144133.jpg Attachment : 20231002_153534.jpg

While waiting on something to show up for my bass build I got on with something else. A new guitar body blank, not sure what it'll be yet but I'm very pleased with how things are going. I'll get a pic...