@brie That makes sense, Thanks!

🤣 @brie I think you're right! I was looking online for the diagram I'd seen before and thought this was it without checking. Glad I only made an ass out of me with that assumption! This is why...

@liebe good tip thx

Just another thought on he diagram Dan has posted. I see that the direction of rotation of the bit is ANTI-CLOCKWISE but shouldn’t it be CLOCKWISE, in which case the start and stop points and directio...

@brie 🤣 🤣 Bloody auto correct😅

@liebe That’s a great photo Dan, I’m going to copy that for future reference 👍😃. Glad to hear that your body is a temple, with arrows drawn on it🤣🤣🤣 BrianǴ...

Hey @somethingnicer, I think @brie had hit it on the head. The figuring in wood is the grain going in different directions and potentially density. As you've found out this can make carving out routin...

Hi Chris, I had a similar experience on my last build and, from what I can see in your photos, the breakout was in much the same positions on the body as on mine. In these areas the direction of rotat...

Hey all, working on a new guitar body and I'm using ambrosia maple for the first time. This wood seems very hard and has some fun figuring to it. So I just profiled the body with my router and I got a...

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 let us cook wood then

Hey all, I'm looking around for this round rasp that mark uses in this video, but I'm unsure what to look for, would this just be considered a curved surform or something? Attachment : Screensho...

Its a rond surform, you can find one in the shop. Stanley has one aswell

@benjaminschwillens82gmail-com Thanks! That’s what I was looking at online, but looks different than his. Then I noticed he mentioned a “microplane”. But microplanes are for zesting lemons and turnin...

@russ thanks bud, it's so much nicer, the whole fit and finish is vastly improved and now I could happily put it up for sale

nice build, good job.

@benjaminschwillens82gmail-com Cheers

@liebe the finish was kinda tacky, floyd sat fairly high above the recess and the recess rout wasn't very good. That one was my first carve top too I believe. I prefer to bring the recarve further out...

@nsj nice guitar

@nsj lovely. I don't think there was, but just in case there was any misunderstanding, my comment was based on my mixed results with flattening with a router sled not any suggestion you were doing it ...

@liebe surfacing bit from radian tools, use it then give it a quick sand and it's ready to go. I use 80 grit on a hard piece of wood.