Nice work on the build @Clinton, I need to find out how to open the vids in youtube though, I just can't get them to play nicely on the site for some reason.

@russ I've got a grany tooth plane, just need the blades lol

Wasn't sure where to put this but I've got some new wood to sort out. I have a friend of a friend who has one of those big horizontal bandsaw machines so he can cut it into boards. Then I'll just stac...

Ok I think I have decided what I'm building next, prs body style with carve, 24 fret neck with 6 inline tuners and a gotoh floyd rose and it'll be a neck through! All Brazillian mahogany with ebony bo...

I use a handplane to sort the edges of the board, need one good side then work from it. Centre doesn't have to be exact centre of the board as there's usually room to have the fretboard off to one sid...

I add it towards the end, sometimes thin the headstock and sometimes don't, depends on the tuners and how long the posts are. Often I'll add it and leave a slot for the nut between it and the end of t...

No it's pretty horrible stuff, I hate it! 🤣 Attachment : SquarePic_20221103_16493983.jpg Attachment : SquarePic_20221103_16494885.jpg It's mad stuff, changes colour depend...

@tv101 as long as I avoid putting them through my thickness planer! 🤣

I've got enough old brazilian mahogany to do a neck through and another body plus old northern ash for necks, also there's a tree trunk down the track where I live that I'm waiting to aquire. Farmers ...

I quite like using thinned down oil based polyurethane varnish on necks, gives nice protection but feels superb. I use satin stuff. I've heard ofusing boiled linseed oil etc but was advised to thin ...

Got my ebony boards all stacked properly at last, now I just need lots of neck and body wood plus a shop full of parts! 🤣 Attachment : 20230108_202220.jpg There is one on top that'...

Welcome Dave, not long joined myself. My first neck was made from old floorboards, mahogany and maple, still perfect now after a couple of years. Old wood can be good as it tends to have finished do...

So far this neck weighs about 570g, still got to do the heel too Attachment : 20230108_023736.jpg Attachment : 20230108_023750.jpg

I can say this neck feels pretty light compared to a previous one made from the same wood not baked. I was mainly interested in the colour and stuff, heard plenty talk about it, thought I'd try it. ...

@darrenking this is what I get when googling. "How do they make roasted maple wood? Roasted Maple (also known as Baked, Caramelized, or Torrified Maple) is maple that has been heat treated in a spe...

@darrenking 🤣 🤣 🤣

Hey up Brian, also North east Scotland here

So far so good, think I'll make this one to fit my first build, it's the only one I haven't made the neck for. Used Mark's method shapping today, a lot quicker than the gazillion facet method I was us...

@robin in a vacuum, no air, no expansion, no expansion , no boom! No new method of transport lol Besides, I'd send the wife to check on it 🤣

Operation new neck is fully under way, I can do the carving etc but I'm going to buy one of those crazy long radius blocks like Mark uses to do the radius and levelling out of the board. Attachment...