Once the sides and blocks were glued together I radiused the edges of the sides on the radius dishes. 28' for the edge to be glued to the soundboard.... Attachment : PXL_20221118_101450916.jpg ...

Then I glued them in place inside the mould Attachment : PXL_20221117_140936288.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221117_140927620.jpg 🙏🎶🎸🙂

Then I cut the end block and the heel block to size and squared them up. Attachment : PXL_20220916_144517215.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220916_143044686.jpg 🙂🎸🎶...

I did quite a bit today, including planing in a break angle into the body otherwise the action would have never been right, I glued the sawn off neck piece back on because I need to carve where the ne...

This morning, after making sure they fit seemlessly (a tiny bit of routing and some sanding) I glued the pieces of wood for the top together. Attachment : image.png Attachment : image.png ...

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Then I bent the sides into shape using the pipe bender. I then held them in place in the guitar mould. Attachment : PXL_20221116_141955560.jpg 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Then plane the edges flat on the shooting board. Attachment : PXL_20221104_120832643.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221104_101554408.jpg 🎸🙏🎶🙂

Then cut into shape on the bandsaw. Attachment : PXL_20221104_094805768.jpg 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Onto the sides now. I used cherry for the sides on this one. Planed and scraped down to 2.0 - 2.1mm thick. Attachment : PXL_20221103_134054841.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221028_143829287.jpg ...

Frets in, markers and side dots done, next up it's carving the neck and volute. Attachment : 20230806_164550.jpg Attachment : 20230806_164557.jpg

The Renaissance guitar build is on hold until september, but I started making a mold for a dreadnought guitar, I am planning to build a 12 string and a bass guitar next. Meanwhile I am working on som...

Then I carved out each end of the centre strip to accommodate the heel block and end block. Attachment : PXL_20230209_135932639.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230209_133648378.jpg 🙏...

Time to carve the back braces into shape. Attachment : PXL_20230209_113055517.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230209_101904324.jpg 🎶🙂🎸🙏

Then glue in the four back braces. Attachment : PXL_20230203_115306628.jpg 🙏🎸🙂🎶

The next stage was to mark out each of the areas of the centre strip where each of the four back braces will pass through. Then carve them out Attachment : PXL_20230203_092142104.jpg Attachm...

@peter-c-f Keep us posted Peter. I'm keen to have a go at this. 🙂🙏🎶🎸

@peter-c-f There is nothing wrong with slow builds. Hopefully one can avoid some mistakes if there is time to think things through before doing the steps. Good luck with the first build!

Building my own version of a strat this time, 3 single coils, 5 way blade etc. So far I've been working on the neck, today I got the fret markers done. Next will either be frets in or carve, haven't d...

Cheers @swepri The shooting board has a series of holes at even intervals along the length of the board. I think mine were set at 8cm apart and about 3cm back from the edge (it's hiding in the back of...