That's looking great @robin. You've done a fantastic job joining the back and the top. Adding binding does give it added strength but with such a neat join I think it's worth leaving it as it is too.....

Hi @darrenking, Doesn't sound like a bad idea to me, but generally I don't know until I *uck about, then I find out. For what it's worth, I really like a trapeze on a guitar or something like a bigsby...

I'd have taken this up with the supplier as it sounds like there was a pre-existing weakness in the soundboard. Before you glue it onto the body have a REALLY good look at it with a very bright light ...

Hi James, I’m afraid I’m rather far away to be of help to you, North East Scotland is about as far away from South Wast England as you can get!!🤣🤣 I hear what you’re saying though and ...

@nsj. Nice work Neil. 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Hello folks, Just wondering if there are any builders here living in the South West of England - specifically Cornwall or Devon? Might be useful to meet up and share ideas, experiences, tools etc? Let...

Good afternoon and happy new year to you all! After a protracted break from guitar making I have decided that I really do need to produce an electric bass to further my ambition of seeing an entire ba...

@nsj Wow!! Looks great, especially the blue resin contrasting with the light colour of the wood. Great work there.👍😃🎸

And done, seperate bridge and neck volume with master tone, coil split and a para series on the bridge pickup. All gotoh hardware, warman pickups Attachment : 20240109_130301.jpg Attachmen...

It would probably have to be some old Grateful Dead T-shirt from the '60's @robin. 🤣 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Nice work @robin. Those little diamonds are a very common way to support the crack but I've just recently heard about the use of Japanese paper, pasted along the inside of the crack. It tends to be us...

You could always cut layers of 1.5mm ply or 2mm MDF and laminate them together using laser cut dowel holes for alignment. Darren

Last friday I playd with my band Lemon Curry at a pub in Zaandam. The audio isn't very good, but we had fun!

Yes - I use air assist, but more to stop any smoke fogging up the laser glass and having to clean it all the time. If you're doing multiple passes then a z-axis control can be useful as this moves th...

@musicjohnmcculloch-net I should be able to do it in 4 passes seeing as my module is 12 watt I believe lol Are using air assist?

Thank you! I was just about to ask... 😀

Happy new year, folks! As I've bored you with the earlier parts, I may as well show the final product 🤷 Fully shielded and finished off with a bone nut, gotoh tuners and a set of Seymour Dunca...

If it's useful, here are my Lightburn settings for 5mm black plexi/acrylic: Attachment : image.png I'm planning on using this method to create fret spacing templates as well. Best of luck Joh...

@musicjohnmcculloch-net Ok, we have the same laser module then. Great tip about the black plexi, thanks! I will try to find some and test it.

I've not had fantastic success with cutting mdf or ply with my blue diode laser (Neje E80 24W optical power), though 5mm walnut is a breeze and 5mm or 8mm black plexi cuts really well. For thicker te...