Glad that you are ok! Good with a reminder. I had no idea that dust from woodworking could be dangerous until last year when I started doing some stuff myself and started watching videos about woodwor...

@rathius Oh man, that sounds really bad. Yep, health and safety should always come first, you got to wear a mask for almost everything when guitar building or any woodworking. I leave mine on all day,...

DUST MASK!!!!!!! WEAR YOUR $?/@#¥€ DUST MASK!!! UGH! Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way. Felt like I was gonna die. So 2 weeks ago I just got plum stupid. First I took my new control cavity...

So you could use a recessed jack then claim the notch is because you use a 90 degree cable that connects to your wireless rig attached to your strap. Art is art, you decide what something is and why i...

@tv101 saved it. Rasped a contour shape and sanded. Looks good now. Not much of a big deal as I thought it would.

Tried a waterbased laquer finish over stain on the top of my 2nd build. Followed the instructions and let it cure for almost five weeks before finish sanding and polishing. I used 7 layers of laquer i...

@clinton Nice share the image when completed.

@scurvypete Where in the world do you reside Pete? I’m in the UK and buy most of my FX paints from here. Here you go, be careful when you apply it. Good luck with the bass. 👍

@boo Where do you source your paint from? I'm trying to find some chameleon paint to do a bass myself. Cheers Pete

If you treat it right it will stay purple. I've built a thinline Tele with a purpleheart top and neck a good few years ago and it's still a beautiful purple colour. I sprayed the body with 2k polyuret...

I thought that purple turns into brown after a good while? Don't know if that is true or not. Can you explain ? cause I am also interested in using purpleheart, but not if it turns brown 🙂

Also, purpleheart is cheaper and easier to get. And it's purple.........

Attachment : image.jpg Ebony is just so nice looking. My favorite however is purpleheart for fretboards more so than rosewood.

@tv101 Haha! I think you have just predicted the next few weeks!

Ahhh, that old first step on the slippery slope. Before you know it, your Dining Room table has been re-purposed as a workbench, there are bits of wood lying just about everywhere, waiting "to come in...

Naturally and predictably, things haven't quite gone to plan. The piece of Ash that I was used for the back didn't work out quite how I'd hoped. Though I only noticed that *after* I'd glued in place...

@clinton - that looks BAD - you've done well to save it. That's what I like so much about guitar building - every build seems to throw up an unexpected opportunity to learn something new - aka fix a...

@clinton Yikes! Luckily it is fixable , but I feel your initial frustration. I've been there too often 🙂

@clinton. 😱 Attachment : image.png 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Thanks very much