Attachment : PXL_20230210_153704097.jpg Ready to have all the braces glued in place. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

Attachment : PXL_20230210_131840308.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230210_132157913.jpg Then glue it in place. Clamp the X-brace in place again initially to hold it in. 🙏🎶🎸&...

Attachment : PXL_20230203_151257063.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230202_141558050.jpg Then made the bridge plate using "harvested" wood from the back. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

Attachment : PXL_20230210_122045279.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230210_122219742.jpg Then glue it in place. Clamp the X-brace and top brace in place to initially hold it in place 🙏dz...

Attachment : PXL_20230210_091126865.jpg Plane the plate down to 2mm thickness. Attachment : PXL_20230210_093422284.jpg Then cut it out to shape. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

Attachment : PXL_20221222_120207311.jpg Then using some "harvested" wood from the soundboard, I made the soundhole plate Attachment : PXL_20221222_131029286.jpg Attachment : PXL_2022122...

Attachment : PXL_20230216_111453791.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230216_101527375.jpg The next stage was to partially carve the ends of the other Top Braces prior to gluing them in place as it ca...

A very long couple of days @tv101. 😉 🎸🎶🙏🙂

Some weeks ago I was in Ayr where Carol took me to an afternoon jam with Mick and Dee. I got the privilege to play Mick’s short scale bass, made by Mark. It was an eye opener for me. Never played a sh...

🤔 If you want to make it look perfect you can route out the offending ring with a slightly wider slot and then inlay something extra wide (2bwb or bwbwb or a wooden strip) or take your own bes...

I think that because the fretboard meets the soundboard around the 12th fret that by the time the fretboard was lengthened to cover the offending article the frets would be just for decoration......mi...

@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 .... I know you say that, on a soprano uke, covering the top of the rosette with the fretboard is not really an option but..... why? I know a lot of them have the fretboar...

@nsj. Very Nice work Neil. Is there a wee video coming? 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Well I got there in the end, plays really nice, looks really nice and sounds really nice. I'll call that a win. Attachment : 20230727_195323-01.jpeg Attachment : 20230727_195333-01.jpeg ...

Build more, worry less. That's my motto lol. Seriously though, I'd only be concerned if I was shipping it elsewhere in the world with extreme temps. Out of the 14 guitars I've built I've only had on...

Just a few days @Russ - it's possible that another member of this little forum might be there also 😉 I've been told that Ayrshire in August is the best time to visit. Shouldn't be too hot. Nor too...

Are you going on a workshop @tv101? Very jealous. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

It's a large chunk of mahogany, dimensions 53" x 4" x 3". Or 1340 x 100 x 75 in new mmoney. It's quite weighty. Pictured with a couple of G-style blanks for comparison. I've had it for a while, wi...

Thanks Russ, I think that if I tried that I'd just dig myself further into the deep do do 🤣 I reckon I'll just live with it, learn from it and as Mr Bailey once said.....mistakes like that j...

@bpower top job!