@darrenking Thanks I see now what I’ve been doing wrong and it should be turned like a hand scraper blade. It didn’t come with any instructions and I’ve been trying to get a normal edge. It’s my rough...

@darrenking Thanks for your comment. I’ve found the blade very difficult to sharpen even with a small roller jig and a diamond stone, so would be grateful for any professional tips that you can pass o...

Planing fretboard the hard way but it’s good fun. It is of course my cheapest and nastiest bit of rosewood being a practice build. A very old piece from Touchstone Tonewoods some time in the 90s. I th...

With the curtains and multiple tv101 people I started to get a migraine so had to shut my eyes and listen to the music, which wasn’t bad at all.

This is my favourite at the moment. I remember seeing Rab Noakes at the Ayr Folk Club in about 1972 in the Station Hotel just across from Twa Dugs. let’s see if utube let’s me post it.

@tej I found these diamond stones in my local diy shop a few years ago. They are ok for the price and I use them for all my chisel and plane sharpening, held in a vice, to set the micro bevel. Instead...

@tej I got an engineers flat surface from this firm. Not cheap but it has a test certificate accurate to 0.001mm. Solid polished granite and very heavy about 50mm thick I think. For soft water stone a...

@koendb It was cheaper to buy in bulk than small quantities with postage and bulk discounts.

@boo I got some supplies when they were on offer. Wait till firms want to unload stuff. I think the rosewood was £6 each ten years ago and the Ebony was £10 two years ago. I like to spread my investme...

@tej That might be a bit hard but I do have an ebony plank I got from David Dyke suppliers a while ago, not sure if ebony is good for laminating it might better just for fretboards.

Now the big question - ebony or rosewood fretboard. Attachment : C26CE3FC-F6AF-4A8A-ADB8-4EE6625E1F42.jpeg Do you think I’ve got to many ?

@tej I didn’t think of checking the web it’s too much like being back at work

Questions for the experienced electric builders please on my practice run before going to the wood I got from Mark. Do I need to glue a fillet in to the last gap where the adjusting nut shows. I’ve on...

I would be worried about glue squeeze out from the fretboard getting into the channel. Old style rods in an aluminium u shaped channel I would be happy not using a fillet, but you have to remove so mu...

I wonder if utube will block this one

@tej Thats what I did, a fill in strip to raise the depth where I was making it deeper for the adjusting nut. Necks are laminated anyway so it should be ok. I also had bad side tear out so cut a patch...

@tej Dont worry, my test run on an old neck blank of not very good quality was so bad I’m not even going to share it. I went too deep in one spot also but hand fitted a patch or two, using an off cut ...

@markbailey Thanks for posting the link. You’ve certainly cleared a path through the mine field of sourcing supplies for all us amateurs. It makes life a lot easier.

@tej Everybody has different methods. I don’t glue frets in unless it’s an acoustic re fret over the sound box where I can’t press or hammer, although I should say I’m changing some of my methods afte...