Wow, wow and some more wow Koen. Great skills, and a beautiful instrument that you're building.

@anisahsheikh Even experienced makers still find there are new things to learn

I think that looks really good - lovely piece of timber for the board, and the dots are super-neat!

Got the holes drilled correctly this time and first thin coat of finish on, tomorrow I'll sand back taking out little marks that I missed before. Attachment : 20230406_142135.jpg Attachmen...

Bargaintastic Mr B! Ideal platform for messing about with pickups 'n' stuff. And shouldn't need much TLC to get it playing nicely. Like the old joke about how to double the value of a Lada (fill th...

That’ll do nicely. 🙂

@jamesbisset 13 - 16k is generally where I like with a bridge humbucker. I find wide variations though from muddy to superb singing clarity in that range.

The jack socket had a misaligned nut forced on. And the humbucker measures around 14.5k, which seems a little unnecessary. No idea what the woods are, but it’s quite heavy. Now I just need to save up ...

I’m quietly working on the guitar neck for my laminated semi hollowbody, and rushed off to Stranraer this morning to get some hardwood strips to make my fingerboard caul. On the way, we popped into a ...

Some time ago I was asked to build a Tele style for a friend of a friend. He wanted specific natural wood body finish and C profile neck. It was all new to me so I asked him to buy all the hardware. T...

Well neck is glued in, drilled the bridge holes today. For some reason I only used my blind spot when measuring for the tail piece and put it of to one side by 1 or 2mm lol. Anyway plugged now, I'll r...

Today I got the cavity to final depth and made a cover out of the oak. Also got the headstock shaped and drilled. Next up sanding then I can glue in the neck. Attachment : 20230403_195943.jpg ...

@koendb Fantastic work, it’s great to see someone using hand tools and not doing everything by machine.

Stage one of carving the top Attachment : 20230402_164749-01.jpeg And stage two Attachment : 20230402_183915-01.jpeg Now I just have to sand till my arms fall off! 🤣

@nsj I read on another forum that evo gold supply problems are due to the foundry which makes the metal not being able to source raw materials

I use firefox on pc, the captcha thing is annoying but so far I've always got in. Occasionally I've had to do it a few times for some reason. The worst part is the quality of the images, they're reall...

@nsj awesome work !

Another busy day, did my belly and leg carve with handtools and then routed the pickup cavities Attachment : 20230401_174450-01.jpeg Attachment : 20230401_174411-01.jpeg Attachment ...

@boo evo gold is nice but it seems to be in short supply just now, well medium jumbo is anyway. I like to use black or gold hardware with it, mind you if I used it again I'd probably use the cosmo stu...

@nsj Yeah, lovely. Last time I did an ebony fretboard, I used gold Evo fret wire, it looked amazing. There is something about the dark ebony and shiny gold frets that is just wonderful.