@liebe I was concerned about slot depth, slots being clean, getting to much glue on and it choking the slots etc etc lol Might try the acetone next time. Supposed to work well and of course it doesn't...

@liebe For sure, without it you can use a regular fret saw lol What glue did you use? I found out the hard way that wood glue doesn't work with plastic binding lol. Superglue was fine though and did...

Well it's taken a while but the finish is done at least. I'll get it all assembled in the next day or two. Thanks to this forum I found an old post about using osmo poly x which helped great! Att...

Frets are in and side dots done, next up will be sorting the headstock and carving the neck. Attachment : 20231113_182010.jpg Attachment : 20231113_182016.jpg

@liebe I got one of those hosco fret slot cleaning saws, seems to work ok

@wolframmalukker sounds like you need to clear some space, I'd try and just focus on one, get it over the finish line then the next and so on. I find it can get to stressful spreading yourself to thin...

While the finishing of the bass takes ages due to the weather I decided to get on with the tele build. I've roughed out the neck and today was radiusing the board and doing fret markers. Attachme...

Looking good Brian! But my advice, don't rush the finish or it'll take longer lol

Looks good @Boo!

@nortski I think it's just the way he builds guitars, there's also a lot of info to try and make into a course so bound to be the odd thing here and there.

Started the finishing Attachment : 20231102_143452 (1).jpg Attachment : 20231102_143458.jpg

@nortski I think there's a bit of confusion here, basically if you look at say a les paul or prs they have the nut at the end of the fretboard. I think Mark calls a bolt on like a fender style neck wh...

Got the comfort carves done today. I had a go with the grinder and sanding disc on the arm carve but gave that up and went back to good old hand tools. Attachment : 1000028878-01.jpeg Atta...

@steveh well I can blame it on age at least lol

@steveh I place the claw against the back of the spring cavity and move it about until I'm happy it's centred then go round in the holes with a pencil or that. Remove the claw and centre punch the cen...

Today was a little tidy here and there and then onto bridge fitting, pickup routing, control cavity and wire holes. I set the depth stop on my drill press to about 20mm and drilled the corners then ro...

Today I smoothed out the back and front and did the neck heel transition area. Attachment : 20231029_154154.jpg

You say studio apartment, I say shed, you live in a shed lol

Got the top glued on then today I rough cut out the shape, still a bit of refining to do though then it's onto routing and carving Attachment : 20231028_144123.jpg Attachment : 20231027_1...

@nortski I've used wood glue in the past, just squeeze a small bead in the slot then bang in the fret but my preferred method is to run medium superglue in from the ends after fitting. I find the medi...