@nsj we’ll just jump on a plane and come on over. You can help carve some necks in the heat. 🤣 Make sure it’s somewhere between late July and mid-September to get the full experience though. Dog days of summer….   Read more»

Here’s what I use most. 😁

I think Mark has something like this he mentions being his fav too. This one is…   Read more»

I’m in Kentucky, USA and it’s Summer. That means it’s hot here, and high humidity, plus I don’t have A/C in my garage/workshop. Makes for sweaty, sometimes hard to breathe, manual labor. One place I used to work at we…   Read more»

I finished putting the binding on. Hangs over the neck about 0.5mm. That will get taken care of once I put the frets and side dots in. Next step? That big scary router bit to profile the back of the…   Read more»

So I decided to take Sunday off but I’m back at it this morning. I just finished adding binding to the neck. Later today I will be cutting the rear profile of the neck with that bit. I’m planning to…   Read more»

@robin we will know tomorrow. I’ll be planing the truss rod filler in a while then glue the fretboard on, after I radius it with my 14” radius bit. First thing on the agenda tomorrow will be to either trim…   Read more»

So remember this big scary radius bit?

Well I finally figured out how I could use it and radius my necks instead of carving it. 

That’s my test piece and it struck me that I could…   Read more»

Sorry, forgot to mention the frets were already in. 😂 I did see a video on StewMac’s YouTube channel about refretting a bound neck. I’ve tried the guy’s method on two frets and I’m going to see how it cleans…   Read more»

The first one I needed up carving the fretboard edges and then found I’d made bigger errors before I had gotten to that point. Evidently I went all stupid when glueing that fretboard on. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Second neck, attempted to route…   Read more»

I’m really liking this song right now. Slightly dark lyrics but with an upbeat rhythm that makes ya wanna move your feet. This helps me get going in the mornings. 

Man I’ve had a lot of trouble making a neck for this thing. Started on neck #4 yesterday. Yep, I’ve trashed 3 already. Too big of a hurry I’m thinking. Anyway all I’ve done this time around is route the…   Read more»

@steveh I have a kit I bought 2 1/2 years ago I’ve still not finished for that very reason. First thing was dropping the body after spraying the final coat of clear 🤦🏻‍♂️😭 Cracked at a glue joint. Fixed that….   Read more»

  Yeah I learned that the same way….   Read more»

Mark has a course on Udemy?

Neck ready for fretboard. I’ll be using that ebony fretboard in the picture in my previous post in this thread. I’m doing a 14” radius on this one. My first was 16” radius, #2 was 12” radius. I want to…   Read more»

INTRODUCING THE LATEST MODEL FROM GLASSCOCK GUITARS!!!!Here’s the latest original guitar design from the Glasscock Guitars design studio. Meet Jester!Jester is a slim waisted double cut solid body electric guitar. Designed by Gary and inspired by the pick guard from…   Read more»

BTW, it’s not a neck through just a smooth neck joint. I think you may have pointed me to Mark’s video showing how to do it. 😁