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...

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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...

Decided after a bit of googling to have a go at roasting some maple, did gas mark 5.5 for an hour or so then gas mark 7 for 30 minutes. I cut a scarf joint so it'd fit in the oven lol Attachment : ...

@robin that's crazy talk! Got three necks on the go just now lol Well, two necks and a neck through Attachment : 20230101_004631.jpg

@tv101 yeh come on Mark, about time we had some new youtube content lol

@tv101 that's how I did that one but I think I'll angle the next one a little. I do need to think about pickup cavity depth though and how high they'll sit because obviously have a big trem cavity on ...

Thought I'd add a bit more detail for some of the builds I've done so far. This is the black limba neck through, first neck through, first floyd. Started with this Attachment : 20220905_164353-01....

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Got a new hammer for getting frets in an ebony board, think this should do the trick 🤣 Attachment : 20221225_173218.jpg