@russ restless idiot for punishment you say? 🤣 🤣

There I was, tidying up my shed, wondering what I was going to do today. Next thing I know I have a body blank glued up! Oh well. guess I'll just have to build a guitar I suppose 🤣 Going fo...

Well that's that one sorted, plays nice, sounds great. Attachment : 20230415_130637.jpg Final build vid is up on youtube if anyone wants to hear how it sounds and get a better look.

@robin I put mine in for crunchy stuff and take them out for chocolate, ice cream etc 🤣

@boo You could hollow it out a bit then add some sort of top. Between gym sessions of course lol

@robin should've got him to take them all out! I had endless grief from mine since I was 5 or so lol

Perfect to stick oak on and carve! 🤣

Always a relief when it all lines up Attachment : 20230412_022841.jpg

Bunch of thin coats of thinned down oil based polyurethane with sanding between various coats then onto microcystalline wax. I use a foam pad on the drill to buff. Attachment : 20230411_154046.j...

@jamesbisset if a replacement fretboard isn't a problem then yeh, I'd go with getting it off even if it got ruined. With factory fretboards I've managed to remove a couple but titebond seems proper ...

I would see how things line up as in can you still make the neck to the shape you intended. I haven't had much luck separating titebond glued things. Tend to cause more harm than good.

@tv101 My secret is mighty sight glasses and pilot holes, if I use them I can get them super straight every time 🤣

@jamesbisset 13 - 16k is generally where I like with a bridge humbucker. I find wide variations though from muddy to superb singing clarity in that range.

Got the holes drilled correctly this time and first thin coat of finish on, tomorrow I'll sand back taking out little marks that I missed before. Attachment : 20230406_142135.jpg Attachmen...

Well neck is glued in, drilled the bridge holes today. For some reason I only used my blind spot when measuring for the tail piece and put it of to one side by 1 or 2mm lol. Anyway plugged now, I'll r...

Today I got the cavity to final depth and made a cover out of the oak. Also got the headstock shaped and drilled. Next up sanding then I can glue in the neck. Attachment : 20230403_195943.jpg ...

Stage one of carving the top Attachment : 20230402_164749-01.jpeg And stage two Attachment : 20230402_183915-01.jpeg Now I just have to sand till my arms fall off! 🤣

Another busy day, did my belly and leg carve with handtools and then routed the pickup cavities Attachment : 20230401_174450-01.jpeg Attachment : 20230401_174411-01.jpeg Attachment ...

I use firefox on pc, the captcha thing is annoying but so far I've always got in. Occasionally I've had to do it a few times for some reason. The worst part is the quality of the images, they're reall...

@boo evo gold is nice but it seems to be in short supply just now, well medium jumbo is anyway. I like to use black or gold hardware with it, mind you if I used it again I'd probably use the cosmo stu...