Hi Steve I’ve used both Crimson’s penetrating and high build oils; The penetrating oil works great on necks – couple of coats applied with 2000 grit paper (leaving plenty of drying time) then rub down with soft cloth. Super slippy…   Read more»

Here’s a case in point – I’ve just made this neck blank out of laminated pine shelving strips. I don’t think knotty pine will make a proper neck but I want to try Mark’s “angled headstock with jig and…   Read more»

From what I’ve seen around the internet you can build a guitar body out of anything you can fasten a neck, pickups, and bridge to (circular saw blades, concrete, lego, pencils, and shovels are all on YouTube). My last build…   Read more»

I have many happy memories of Blackpool Pleasure beach in the 70/80’s but I’m willing to bet it’s far from the same place now…

Welcome Steve
Building guitars sounds like a great retirement to me. 🙂

Welcome to the forum 🙂
I was very proud of my even string spacing on a nut I cut the other week … only to realise that I’d cut 7 slots for a 6 string guitar.

I found these top loaders very easy to use – no drilling holes through the body and no break angle for the neck to worry about. Most sites have for under £20 

@boo I used one of those Grainger ferule blocks on a previous build. Good gear let down by me putting the bridge in the wrong place. Forgetting to put the insert back in and partitially routing out to the size…   Read more»

@boo Great song. Never caught them live with Lane but “new” singer Will Duval is amazing.

Not normally a fan of Cookie Monster vocals but I’m really liking this; https://youtu.be/Xy5KAHD2uak
In a bizarre way it’s almost soothing. 

Having only radiused 3 necks I probably can’t add much to the excellent advice already given (I clamped the neck, used a short radius block, and check with radius gauge frequently) but one thing I did notice – when I…   Read more»

mmmm wood porn 🙂 That’s going to look so good … You worried about weight or just going to suffer for your art?

For my first build I re-used pickups that I kept from years ago when I upgraded my Ibanez RG270 but when compared to the Seymour Duncan’s I was used to hearing they did sound a bit lacking. Second build was…   Read more»