@tv101 You’ve just ruined the surprise. Thanks @boo, it's not like one those xmas cards that spreads glitter everywhere when you open the envelope is it. 🙂

@tv101 Or, about 100miles away on Scottish roads. Which is generally about 20miles as the crow flies on the West coast ... You're really not far wrong there, it's a 130 mile drive there, 60 miles ...

@boo Thanks for that, you're a star. @Rocknroller912 I took your advice and chiselled a bit out to make a straight line and glued a piece in. I had two goes at it, my first effort was pathetic so I c...

Thanks @tv101, but boo got in before you.. I do have a little bag of rosewood magic dust, in my hut at the caravan though, a 7 hour round trip away.

Thanks for the advice @Rocknroller912, I've plenty maple offcuts and it's not really in a conspicuous place so the bigger bit that I cut out will be mostly hidden inside the neck pocket.

Thanks @boo , that should do the job. That'll be great if you could post that to me.

Hi @tv101, that's probably what ill do, but I haven't got any rosewood to make dust from. I'll fix the maple part today, the chip in the rosewood won't look so big then.

It's all been going very well on this build, not too many mishaps to report. However, I was doing a trial assembly of the humbuckers yesterday and was chiselling the neck down flush to the body at the...

@luthierik Hi Erik, I'm happy to help. I've had lots of help and advice from this group, I'm glad to be able to give something back. That's a luck find with the dresser, I'm going to be scouring the s...

@jonhodgson I would say yes, your numbers tally with my method. I think Erik has to go in between there some to get something that he can use. I'm hoping that the offset look is just an optical illusi...

@luthierik Hi Erik, that is a beautiful body, we can't allow that to go to waste. I'm absolutely certain that you can make a neck to work here. As Tony says, draw it out accurately at full size. You d...

@luthierik These are just the kind of puzzles that I like. My thoughts so far are to make a new neck of a scale length to fit your body. Then make a new body to fit your 24.5" neck. Given the dimens...

@clinton @mattbeels Very observant of you both 🙂 Attachment : 20210224_163643.jpg

@luthierik Hello Erik, that is an interesting problem. I don't think it's possible for a 24.5" scale neck to intonate at anything other than 24.5". Can you post some photos of your body and neck wirh ...

@steveadams I've just watched part V. I'm well impressed with the way that you casually drilled the tuner holes with a handheld drill. When I tried that, I had to plug most of them and then try agai...

@bonnywood Robin lives in Falkirk, must be very near to you geographically Welcome to the group. Geographically, I'm down the road a bit in Polmont.

My little rest piece polished up quite well so I've gone ahead and stained the body. There was a little flaw in the body that I had to fill and it didn't take the stain very well. So I mixed some dye ...

That looks fantastic @bpower, well done.

@darrenking , in my experience, small, stupid bugs are deeply attracted to the final, ‘most perfectly sprayed top coat ever’ Maybe a spray booth made of mosquito net material would let the UV in and...

@russ but can I be a pain and ask if you know the difference between BSR and RAL Aerosols? BSR and RAL are just different standards or numbering systems for the various colours, nothing to do with ...