Spot of radiusing this afternoon, only took 20 - 30 minutes with the lovely long beam and 80 grit. Attachment : 20230203_170301.jpg

@tv101 bet his cakes are awful 🤣

Mr Bailey makes exceedingly good tools. 👍

I’m guessing that you posted that design @jamesbisset just to check if we’d spot the deliberate mistake …. Am I right??

I started this project over two years ago (I know) here: I didn’t even know a laminated semi-hollowbody wasn’t an archtop. After all this time building the workshop, accumulating tools, buying parts,...

Got a bit more done today, headstock all shaped Attachment : 20230202_171840.jpg And a lot of the neck shape roughed out, carving the back and radiusing the board next I think Attachme...

Meant to say too that my new file arrived, I have a couple of iwasaki, shinto etc but liked the look of the Mark Bailey special! I'll be trying it out on the neck carve. Attachment : 20230130_13...

Got the pieces all planed so they line up nice Attachment : 20230129_154303.jpg And got a lot of the excess chopped off the neck section, glued a couple of extra bits on to fit the headstoack s...

Used a bit of amber stain mixed with the thinned down polyurethane, just enough to make it pop Attachment : 20230130_134116.jpg

The mildew is mostly contained and nothing touched it that didn't also cause issues. I ran the boards through the thickness sander and was able to get 99% of it off, and am looking at options with my ...

Haha , yeah maybe 🙂 though, I am willing to bet you will not like to do that commute every week 😀The CMB is located in Puurs, roughly in the middle of Belgium

Yes it is @Robin! And once you start to get it right , you feel like the king of the world for the rest of the day.Together with that, I also developed a very profound and severe case of GAS for sharp...

That's incredible @koendb! Very similar to what I've been doing with the CNC machine really, except that it's just about the complete opposite method. In awe of the hand-tool skills to be able to work...

@koendb Wow! That involves a lot of patience and skill. And learning, which always is fun. 👍

Firstly - nice piece of timber there to use for the top. How is the clean-up going? Don't think I've ever had the mildew experience, so I've got no suggestions at all on how to deal with it. Re the ...

Excellent @koendb. That's a great job rounding over the neck without the use of any sandpaper. Looking forward to seeing the rosette completed. You already look like you've got very good hand tool ski...

@koendb very cool koen. 🙂

Then we finetune the shape of the heel, by pressing the neck against the body, with a strip of sanding paper between, pulling the sandpaper back and forth over the body shape. Then the neck is glued ...

I've been pretty quiet on the forum the last couple of months because I had so much things going on , that I barely had the time keeping up reading through all the new replies and topics.Last summer, ...

@tv101 Nice work! it looks great. 🤩 🙂 👍