Birdseye maple neck, reputable seller and all and I'm not blaming them in any way. Just wondering if this common with things like birdseye? Finished the guitar and uploaded my final build vid to my yo...

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@russ he has the spalted stuff, the guy with the floor boards is over by Friockheim but not sure how long he has. He was fixing up a building but got ill hence why he's selling the stuff off.

@nsj Great work Neil. Like @robin said, you've got some nice pieces of wood there. I'd like to go and see this guy over in Perth someday when the weather improves to take a look at those maple floorbo...

@boo thank you so much! 🙂 once I get going with it I’ll let you know how it’s going. It’ll be after Christmas now, quite possibly once the weather has warmed up so I can spray with the garage ...

@scurvypete Pete, if you look through this thread of another one of my builds, you will see some of the problems you can run into with paints. Most people may not experience this amount of problems w...

@scurvypete No probs. Have you watched the course on painting that @markbailey made? It’s a great introduction to preparation and paint for guitars. It takes time and patience, and you will make mis...

@boo mate, I haven’t used anything! This’ll be my first time painting an instrument. I am an absolute beginner and I’m trying to find out as much as I can before I start. I totally appreciate your adv...

@scurvypete I do use car paints but I’ve used nitro too. I’m still unsure of exactly what poly products to use on guitars. Have you used poly? If so, can you suggest anything? The bass turned out wel...

Hi @boo Thanks very much for that.I'm in the UK too. You use car paint do you? Not nitrocellulose or polyurethane? From what I’ve been reading, loads of people aren’t keen on cast paint for instrument...

@robin Feel good wood for some, I have a local friend too that's had a pile of the brazillian mahogany and sapele around his workshop for years, long before all the cites stuff came along. For spalted...

Welcome to this awesome group....

@robin I managed to upload media then insert from there, put a thread in the electric guitar showcase area I think, that's where I was aiming anyway lol

Started at the beginning of lockdown and got carried away lol. For the first three builds I used already made necks. I've gone back to my first couple of builds and modified them too. thinned the neck...

Cheers guys, just trying to figure out how the forum works so I can add pics. I'm used having an add image button that you click then add a direct link for an image but this is all alien to me lol

@nsj Welcome Neil. Sounds like you've hit the ground running. Looking forward to seeing some of your builds ...... I'm also up here in the cold country. 🎸🎶🙏🙂

It's about time to shape and slot a new nut for the extremely slow build. Clamping the thing when shaping, marking and so on has been frustrating. So, I finally made a little holder to make that fiddl...

@boo Cheers mate, I'll post some pics later tonight

@nsj Welcome to the forum Niel I see you are in Scotland, so am I. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙌 Have a good look around the site and forums, and when you...

Hi, my names Niel and I'm an addict! To building guitars that is lol Started messing about at the beginning of lockdown and now starting number 13. Learnt loads watching youtube and using fb groups...