Well that's the body blank all glued up! Needed a few clamps due to the nature of wonky oak lol. I often find with anything spalty or that it needs a few extra clamps but once glued to a stable body i...

At every interval...brosky...it's like...ok, gopher it, or go home, this is what i signed up for; when I placed my $40 mahogany neck and $35 Indian Rosewood fretboard into the caul and clamp with a bo...

@Robin This is also a very wise thing to try before any drastic action. 👍

@robin Yeah, the intonation always needs adjusting if you change string gauge. Maybe not a lot but it will need some. I don’t think that will give you enough adjustment in terms of scale length though...

@robin if the strings are old they could be causing intonation problems, I had a bad G with a set of elixir and they were brand new! Intonation was awful. New string and boom! Sorted. The A string ...

@swepri I get bored and restless lol

@tv101 but only one at a time instead of batches lol

That top looks great! As @tv101 said, amazing speed in your workshop. 🙂

Good! Getting started is the hard part. 🙂

Some nice grain pattern on that top 👍 You realise that you're making these quicker than some "professional" guitar builders???

Well, my latest is sitting curing with a number of coats of hard wax oil on it so thought I'd start my next build. It's also going to be a carve top, gibson scale length, 24.75 inches, 22 fret, tune o...

Welcome @pompei to this community, hope you will enjoy and learn a lot here at Guitarmaking.

Thanks all for the words of encouragement, much appreciated. Forgot to mention that, of course, I was wearing my dust mask and my dust extraction system has trapped all that future value dust!!!£££&#x...

Hope you've kept that ... in years to come, could be worth a fortune to collectors 😆

Good job @brie keep it up you are doing nice!

@tv101 🤣 😆 😉

@tv101 yeh but I'm handy too! 🤣

You have some handy mates up there @nsj!

@brie Nice job man, you’ve broken the seal now, no going back. 😆👍

Attachment : AA453BD3-A60F-4DBA-A6C6-FA1436FC6095.jpeg Attachment : AFE479BD-6020-4C88-B7B1-D77A85EC9069.jpeg Well I suppose there’s no going back now, made my first sawdust of the build t...