Carve through the top and let the body wood show? Could almost make it look a bit like a binding maybe. But yeh, I was going over my early builds, it's great. Taking the experience and what I'd lear...

Was reassebling this fella with it's lovely new neck Attachment : 20230206_001254.jpg Then I noticed this! Attachment : 20230206_001248.jpg I know it's in my little room somewher...

Today I got on with the neck carve and headsatock refining and of course the volute. Followed Marks method this time, soooo much easier. I've always used a facet method but one that involved a fair bi...

Spot of radiusing this afternoon, only took 20 - 30 minutes with the lovely long beam and 80 grit. Attachment : 20230203_170301.jpg

@tv101 bet his cakes are awful 🤣

Got a bit more done today, headstock all shaped Attachment : 20230202_171840.jpg And a lot of the neck shape roughed out, carving the back and radiusing the board next I think Attachme...

Meant to say too that my new file arrived, I have a couple of iwasaki, shinto etc but liked the look of the Mark Bailey special! I'll be trying it out on the neck carve. Attachment : 20230130_13...

Got the pieces all planed so they line up nice Attachment : 20230129_154303.jpg And got a lot of the excess chopped off the neck section, glued a couple of extra bits on to fit the headstoack s...

Used a bit of amber stain mixed with the thinned down polyurethane, just enough to make it pop Attachment : 20230130_134116.jpg

Operation new neck is almost done, a bit of finish sanding then onto the actual finish. Abalone fret markers, hosco glow in the dark side dots. Got the frets in last night. Attachment : 20230128...

@tv101 don't think it'll need much, trees been standing dead a while and I've burnt the higher branches already. Give it a couple of months in the house I reckon.

Hurt my back properly getting this chunk out from behind the shed lol. Still, there's a guitar body in it. Hoping the fact it splits into four gives some interesting grain. There's a holly tree and th...

@russ no extras bud, they maybe charge UK vat when buying. I noticed Thomman and other EU shops do that too. They charge the correct vat and you get no extra charges. The radius beam cost me just unde...

@koendb yeh I've seen his comments on the live streams, such a liar ain't he 🤣

I think black limba looks gorgeous on it's own but if wanting to use the top I'd pick something a bit plainer. Maple and sapele laminates on the neck could be nice, weight wise I don't think it'll be ...

New radius beam is great! I'm almost done and it's only taken minutes Attachment : 20230120_234434.jpg And just like in Mark's build a guitar video it's taking out high spots etc Attac...

@tv101 in my case it's age and cold lol

@tv101 neck through lad, big gluing area lol Cut out the template today, laid it all out. I'm going to print another copy of the body and establish the centre line next. Attachment : 20230120...

After a bit of measuring and decision making I decided to shift the truss rod a bit further forward to allow more room for the body. Also going to modify the curve where the neck joins to get full acc...

Today I actually did something, got the truss rod slot routed and cut out for the spoke wheel. (Did all the neck blank etc last year and it's up on my youtube, NSJGuitars.) Anyway now I need to do a c...