That's *more* disappointing than the split & bubbled veneers. 🙁 Are you sure you're actually in the right workshop?

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@tv101 totaly! Watching other people on youtube and getting inspiration to improve my results!

That sounds like a good couple of hours work ... but worth it for all the extra enjoyment you get from a much easier-playing guitar.

Right, decided to get on with the levelling, crowning and polishing of the frets before attaching the wings, loads easier. Levelled and crowned Attachment : 20230215_193433.jpg Then onto po...

Looking good @nsj. 👍 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Attachment : IMG_8912.JPG Hmmm... let’s see... Attachment : IMG_8913.JPG Nope. Well, that’s a little disappointing!

I was beginning to think this is reading more like a "how to build bend veneers" thread than "how to build guitars" 😆 But your experience is pushing me towards an approach of trying to use the...

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@jamesbisset my dad had a 1965 es330, intersting stuff that

@jamesbisset I thought one of the comments was about wrinkling cased by the bag pressing, so I thought a solid outer mold would stop this. I haven’t read any books on this it was just an idea I had. ...

@rocknroller912 The adventure with the cutaway side suggests that the next stage in trying to force sawn veneer into a compound curve, without splitting along the grain, is gong to be using water in s...

@jamesbisset Ive been following your build with interest and trying to get my aging brain cells around the problem. Once you have a concave mold made for the front and back would it be possible to ma...

@tv101 When I’ve glued veneer I dampen the non gluing side to even out the effect of moisture in the glue. Don’t know if this is usual or not but I always think out of the box.

@tv101 We used a two-pack urea resin. I doubt we’d have had time to correct my foolish error otherwise. And yes, left it overnight in the bag.

Today was good, got the fret markers done, then frets in and finally side dots. The new tools are helping a lot, hardly any levelling required after fretting due to getting everything so straight and ...

@tv101 Use the tubing, cut teeth in, drill it in then cut it off and file flush. Then start again, cut teeth, drill etc. That might work

Two surprises. I just watched a 20min video on different types of glue It was actually quite interesting and informative Two questions. Which glue did you use on the sides? I'm guessing the Bagp...

It's very effective @nsj - works well 👍 I did some experimenting with the CNC with a similar idea - except I was just cutting the channel in the material and avoiding the step of having to f...

@tv101 yeh alumium tubing off ebay, 6mm with 4mm internal diameter. I also got smaller stuff for the side dots, had to sand a 2.5mm drill bit down to about 2.4mm seeing I could only find imperial but ...