@robin you can get retangles of abalone and stuff off ebay, that's what I did with a view to chopping them up to make an inlay. Mind you, i fancy doing a scaley dragon or something down a fretboard...

@russ my life is one big faff lol

Thank you for the information , it so helful ^^

Thank you for sharing your ideas. Here I have learned a lot of things from this post and appreciate your innovative thinking.

@rathius I know it sucks but you're learning, I learnt mostly from making mistakes but now I feel so confident, know exaclty what I'm doing and don't get so stressed. Carving the edge of the fretboar...

The first one I ended up carving the fretboard edges and then found I’d made bigger errors before I had gotten to that point. Evidently I went all stupid when glueing that fretboard on. 🤦...

@rathius This time you will make it! Maybe a simple checklist with the right sequence plus all dimensions and cautions noted would help? I find it very easy to miss a step or forget which measures are...

Man I’ve had a lot of trouble making a neck for this thing. Started on neck #4 yesterday. Yep, I’ve trashed 3 already. Too big of a hurry I’m thinking. Anyway all I’ve done this time around is route t...

Turns out our shop had some faulty colletes! I'm pretty sure these gouges will expose themselves so I'm going to try a little resin and make it a feature! More to come

@kalimar I like routing the trussrod channel while the blank is still squared, I use a fence on my router to follow the edge of the blank. Then for the actual neck I make the fretboard and once it'...

@bpower Cheers. The secret is a dark ebony board, sawdust and superglue disappears!

@nsj that looks fantastic. A fancy inlay is something I'm still trying to build up the courage to do. 🙂

Ok so I got new binding, going with an ivory as I think it'll look great with the black limba. I'll choose some other pickups. Did my first ever 12th fret inlay, bought a jewellers saw and some fancy ...

I’m really liking this song right now. Slightly dark lyrics but with an upbeat rhythm that makes ya wanna move your feet. This helps me get going in the mornings.

@kalimar Bummer! If the shank on the router bit is dirty or scratched it can work itself loose. Sometimes you can hear it happen and manage to stop in time.

Ran into my first mishap. After a test run on the router table with some pine, my truss rod cavity got poked full of holes by a slippery router bit. turns out sapele is really really hard, and our col...

Made some patterns on the laser cutter. I'm using fairly thin MDF hardboard, My plan is to use the router table rather than handheld so I believe the thin template shouldn't pose a problem. I'm not sh...

@bpower I like the idea of the bottle screws on your jig, I'm going to be copying that idea on mine, I've got some of these in my boat junk box.

thanks @russ. 🙂

My favourite song today: