@Boo Yes, it will be ferules (or maybe set neck if I do a neat enough job of the joint). Haven’t used a plate on any guitar I’ve built yet. One of the joys of building my own has been…   Read more»

Been playing around with body ideas for the next build.

This one is really a variation on what I’ve done before but at least I’ll know it will work.

This I like a lot more – sort of…   Read more»

Hi Louis It’s been nearly 30 years since I did my electronic engineering HND but your circuit diagram makes sense. I’ve never seen a guitar use capacitors that large though – do you really mean 27 and 33 Millifarads (mF)?…   Read more»

@darrenking Do you hold your neck in the desired location (with clamp or masking tape & super glue), attach your template gizmo to the body flush to the neck, then remove the neck leaving template exactly where you want it?

I’ve got a nice Stew Mac neck template in clear Perspex with marks for centre line etc but my neck master templates (CNC’d 60’s Strat) that I got from Ebay when I first started don’t exactly match in the corners,…   Read more»

Some very cool looking guitars underway there @eddie6string The grain in that green tele is lovely.

Thanks @cheesewhisk There’s still the odd bit of orange peel here and there but I’d rather have that than rub through the finish. If I had a spray booth (rather than using cans in my back garden) then I’d probbaly…   Read more»

Thanks for your kind words everyone 😀 
 

Edit – didn’t round over the edges as much

Thanks Boo and well spotted. When creating my first body template I just copied my Kramer 120 (early 90’s Korean model) and changed the neck heel, belly carve, and did round over the edges as much. (I originally planned to…   Read more»

Just to echo what everyone else has said; Don’t be hard on yourself and don’t let mistakes get you get you down – shrug them off and take the ‘learning opportunity’. Think about all the various skills and knowledge required…   Read more»

Never seen a truss rod yet that wasn’t a bit thicker at the headstock end – by the time you’ve ‘nibbled out’ for that your ‘learning opportunity’ will be even less noticable. 🙂 I tried dust extraction on first truss…   Read more»

“But somehow, I never have the right parts for the next build.”
When you could have sworn you had two of something but can only find one of it …