Waxed & buffed Attachment : 20230102_190653sml.jpg And first coat of the French polish on the back Attachment : 20230102_191248sml.jpg I think the back is a piece of bicolour Ash...

So far so good, think I'll make this one to fit my first build, it's the only one I haven't made the neck for. Used Mark's method shapping today, a lot quicker than the gazillion facet method I was us...

Thanks @bpower - nature is a wonderful thing!

@tv101 oohhh... I love the coloring on that wood. Sweet. 🙂

This has had 3-4 coats of the Liberon Easy French Polish applied, and I used some 0000 wire wool to smooth it out this morning before applying what's - hopefully - going to be the final coat of the po...

I've got some piezo-equipped saddles there,to feed a Graphtech Ghost system. The wires from the saddles feed under the bridge pickup surround, via some grooves made in the base of the surround. You ca...

Somehow, the last couple of weeks (when I thought I'd get *loads* of workshop time!) have disappeared with little progress made on this build. So, a bit of a push before I have to go back to work (nex...

I like a bit of mad professor experimentation! Particularly when i'm not in the room ...

@robin in a vacuum, no air, no expansion, no expansion , no boom! No new method of transport lol Besides, I'd send the wife to check on it 🤣

Wow - I just watched the 20min video. What a huge amount of time and effort - and skills - you've put into that rebuild. Don't think I've seen someone disassemble, and then rework, an acoustic in tha...

Attachment : 1942 Finished.jpg Happy New Year folks! I finished this job with the Eko Ranger in October but didn't get round to posting a picture yet. If you want the full story and more images, ...

Indeed - Happy New Year all, may it be healthy, happy, and full of sawdust making 🙂

@nsj I'm now thinking about a possible steel barrel or such that I can suck the air out of and stick on a bed of hot embers, put something inside to support the maple. I think it's generally done und...

@robin that's crazy talk! Got three necks on the go just now lol Well, two necks and a neck through Attachment : 20230101_004631.jpg

Decided after a bit of googling to have a go at roasting some maple, did gas mark 5.5 for an hour or so then gas mark 7 for 30 minutes. I cut a scarf joint so it'd fit in the oven lol Attachment : ...

Operation new neck is fully under way, I can do the carving etc but I'm going to buy one of those crazy long radius blocks like Mark uses to do the radius and levelling out of the board. Attachment...

@nsj , I don't have all these router jigs like some people lol Have a wee break from making guitars and make some jigs, its just as much fun.

Nice work @nsj! I like it

@tv101 that's how I did that one but I think I'll angle the next one a little. I do need to think about pickup cavity depth though and how high they'll sit because obviously have a big trem cavity on ...

@tv101 yeh come on Mark, about time we had some new youtube content lol