Hi @benjaminschwillens82gmail-com This might be a course you could do at the workshop, but sadly there hasn't been much development with the online courses for some time. The online finishing course ...

Hey folks, I've made a few electrics with the usual mahogany, limba, rosewood & ebony materials, but I'll now thinking about what woods are available in the UK or Europe that are suitable for bui...

In the meantime, I finished the rosette, turned the tuning pegs and fitted them to the pegbox. I also carved the lower inside of the pegbox for better string access Attachment : 5A018EEA-CAED-4218...

is there any news regarding this topic

good info thx

Hi Rathaus, I remembered your post about problems with veneering while I was watching this video The guy talks extensively about different glue types and their properties in regard to veneer applicat...

@liebe Thanks for that drawing, it's very helpful!

@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...