Meanwhile, the frets can go in. I opted for an ebony fingerboard because archtops/jazz guitars always have ebony fingerboards. Obvs.. I also opted for stainless steel frets, but Mr Bailey really didn’...

Frets all levelled, crowned and polished and logo done Attachment : 20230902_172625.jpg Attachment : 20230902_172558.jpg Also trying out ebonising, you put 0000 wire wool in a jar wi...

Cheers @clinton. 🙏🎶🎸🙂

@liebe - much easier!

@tv101 thanks! I'll look into changing my username too

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Where would be the fun, the challenge, the satisfaction if we knew a build was going to be faultless? It'd be like doing a crossword puzzle when you've got all the answers in place of the clues.

@robin "Smooth, faultless build". That must surely be utopic... 😉

@tv101 Oh I see. My dyslexia playing up again. 😆

@boo - I think you misinterpreted what I meant 😉 Robin's body split because there wasn't enough thickness of the wall of the guitar once he'd hollowed out the cavities, not because the body itself ...

Congrats on that Robin. Now you'll have to do an emergency dash back home to collect all the bits to be able to put it together. I sometimes wonder if the builds-that-go-wrong-but-are-rescued are mor...

@robin Yeah, there is no reason why ply can’t be used, it’s stable if it’s good quality. It’s certainly not the best material to use for a guitar body but it just proves that it’s possible. In terms o...

@tv101 Yeah I know what you mean but you have to consider the depth of the neck pocket too. If the body was thinner, the neck would have to be thinner. Making the body thinner is reducing strength fro...

@russ Splendid job! Awesome!

@boo well now I have a car that does over 60mpg I may just have to pop over lol

@tv101 Audio assault buddy, soooo cheap and they sound great!

I'm a pc guy so stick with that myself, tracktion waveform is free which is cool lol. Anyway can you tell what era I grew up in 🤣

@russ @boo I bet you both could get into the DAW/plugin/recording world quite easily. It looks scary and confusing from the outside, and it can be incredibly complex from the inside, but it's reasona...

@nsj - I couldn't think of the name of this one earlier, which is a bit daft because I get emails from them most weeks! There are options there for more amp-focused plugins, which are reassuringly ex...

@tyreman Wow! Craftsman!