@jonhodgson Totally agree with Dan's comments and would just like to add that routing the headstock shape can be tricky, maybe better to cut close to your template lines on the bandsaw then use belt s...

If you think you have seen it or something like it before you probably have. Built similar guitar for a friend last year that worked out so well I just had to do one for myself. It took a while due to...

@markbailey It depends on how big your rod is, it could be a struggle to get it into a slot sometimes. ✊😆 Sorry, that was very childish.

Hey Jonathan - That's normal. We normally push it as far back as it will go (towards the body end). This way it cannot slide back any further so could only potentially move forwards but - it won't mov...

I was just in the process of prepping to fix the trussrod in and I noticed that I seem to have wound up in a situation where there is nothing to stop the truss rod from sliding backwards and forward i...

@clinton Beautiful work as usual. ✊

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Nice build. Colors top

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Hi @jonhodgson Love seeing progress photos and the story behind them. I wish I had access to the range of tools you have! As someone that's had chipout and had the collet robbing issue before, I fee...

Failure 2, somehow when I was trying to route the deeper part of the neck sides (longer than my cutter so I had to take the template off) I managed to set things so the collet wound up rubbing. I knew...

Not one, but two failures today. The first I can put down mostly to bad luck, though maybe better router technique would have avoided it, the second was 100% facepalm when I realised what had happened...

@liebe thank you

@benjaminschwillens82gmail-com Nice work!

So now we get to the night I'm starting these posts, I went in to the hackspace thinking I would have a whole evening to myself to work on the guitar, no shop projects, no hackspace system admin, no i...

Attachment : headstock angle.webp For a couple of reasons I took a slice off the top of the neck blank, then flattened it again using the planer. When it came to routing the headstock angle Mark's...

Attachment : templates.webp So, in the Hackspace we have a large format laser cutter, so I used that to cut some templates. We also have a Denford CNC converted to LinuxCNC (guess which muggins go...

Attachment : Fretslots.webp I think you may recognize the jig. This was the first day of the London Craft Festival, and I had spent the whole day talking to people trying to convince them to join ...

So having joined the London Hackspace in the hope of using the faciities to build guitars and other cool things I somehow wound up first as a maintainer organizing the woodshop and then as a Trustee (...

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