Hi @stephen-hayes, Welcome to the best guitar making resource in the world! And don't worry, in the field of guitar making related woodworking questions there is no such thing as stupid! Have fun Darr...

Welcome @stephen-hayes There usually is lots of helpful answers in this forum. One thing I have learned this year is to make mistakes look like intentional design features. 😀

@stephen-hayes Housework can earn brownie points which can be spent on guitar building time🔨🎸🤣 As for the centre line paranoia, I find regular medication helps🍻Ǵ...

Thank you everyone for your welcome. So far i have learned two things. The first is that if I keep my workspace clean my wife now thinks I need to apply this principle to he house! The second is that ...

Crack goes all the way to the floyd cavity, you can bend the neck and feel the body move lol This one is firewood! 🤣

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Surely can do. Steam, a radius dish and go bar clamping would make your life so much easier.

@stephen-hayes Welcome Stephen. Enjoy the ride. You'll get some great advice through your journey on here. Looking forward to seeing what you can produce. 🙏🙂🎶🎸

Welcome to the builds. Savor the journey and enjoy the outcome.

Hi and welcome to the group, enjoy the journey!! Normally I’m to be found in Northeast Scotland but by a strange coincidence I’m currently very near High Wycombe!! Looking forward to heading north ag...

Well bollox! I knew the neck was tight but only just realised how tight! Gone and split the body! 🤣 Think I'll put this one on the back burner pile for now lol Attachment : 20230517_0...

Glued the neck in today then this evening I thought I'd check how it all looks. Well that's a relief! Now onto more finishing. Attachment : 20230516_232335-01.jpeg Attachment : 20230516...

Got the carve done today and the recess for the controls, after a lot of sanding I wiped down with white spirit to have a look. Looks awesome! Attachment : 20230516_173348-01.jpeg

Hello! All I can say is I am excited to get going on this journey, especially as proper power has now been laid in to my shed of dreams. This is really my retirement project. It's been many, many year...

@jamesbisset I always thought you had the hump about something just couldn’t work it out, so I’m clear on what it is now thanks

Last week, I trimmed the edges of the top and back, with a chisel Attachment : IMG_1064.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1066.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1058.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1057.jpeg ...

Well this has progressed, body cut out, pickups and control catvity routed, belly carve done and neck on it's way to being done. Tomorrow I'll be carving the top, mostly filing due to the knots lol ...

Carves sorted, frets levelled and polished, fretboard oiled and now the body has finish applied. Next will be to mask up around the pocket and glue the neck in, then mask the body and get finish on th...

Got some routing done today, just the control cavity then it's drill the wire holes. Hopefully when it comes time to string up it all looks good! Attachment : 20230506_175246-01.jpeg

@tv101 Will you use your cnc to make the frame. Flat sawn wood will take a curve more that quarter sawn i think as it warps naturally to a curve over time so you will just be accelerating the process...