great work so far.

Gorgeous Classic!

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nice build

@nsj thx for info, i am still in doubt if i will carve bye hand or use templates.

Hey up Scott, I'm about 60 miles or so further north of Edinburger. Welcome to your new life of being poor but surrounded with guitars lol

What I do is to make the front of the heel about 1mm or so lower than the back. Then I clamp the neck to the body and run a straight edge over the frets. Measure at the scale line and measure my heel ...

I'm working on a difficult fretboard inlay and am struggling to find the best method, maybe someone here has some advice..... I'm working on a maple fretboard (separate from neck), and it needs block ...

@nsj Nice one Neil👍😃🎸

Friend asked me to build him an explorer. Turned out decent. Pickguard is ash epoxied to 1mm aluminium then sprayed black, headstock plate is also ash sprayed black. He has a cnc which he was able to ...

I'm working on a difficult fretboard inlay and am struggling to find the best method, maybe someone here has some advice..... I'm working on a maple fretboard (separate from neck), and it needs block ...

@scotty thx for the answer. i wil try this

welcome

Do you have access to a CNC to use it? If so there will be an associated CAD program that the owner uses. I would suggest you start by finding that out then looking into how to program with it. I thin...

Whether or not you need a break angle will depend on the height of your bridge compared to your fret board. For example, if you wanted to use a tunomatic bridge I think they come out at around a 16mm ...

@russ oh, I'm aware! I've been on this project for 18 months so far and am nearly finished. But after this I already have the next 3 planned. These ones won't take as long, hopefully!

real nice

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Hi guys! I've been scouring the internet high and low for the past few months for information regarding Gibson ES-335 guitars from the iconic 1959-1960 era. I want to have a go at building something v...

Thanks Brian, I've not had a chance to look around the site much yet, but I'm sure there will be loads of good content to read up. My plan is tto do a couple of solid body electrics but ultimately I w...