Posted by: @wolframmalukker I have hunted up a flatsawn hard maple board, 2+ inches thick, 5" wide, and 7feet long. What I don't use for a neck, I'll glue up into a second body blank. Once the templa...

The quartersawn board turned out to be extremely soft and powdery. Pretty as that is, it's not useful so back in the student bin and I have hunted up a flatsawn hard maple board, 2+ inches thick, 5" w...

Posted by: @rocknroller912 Interesting point you made about paint being too wet and causing problems. Could this happened with a spray can if it’s not been shaken enough and the solvent/paint mix is ...

@boo Love the video. You can always rely on a Aussie to tell it like it is. Interesting point you made about paint being too wet and causing problems. Could this happened with a spray can if it’s not ...

Posted by: @rocknroller912 I don’t feel so bad now I know that even professional painters get crazy paving sometimes. It happened to me during the summer when I was giving my lathe a re spray. Had to...

Posted by: @bpower Very interesting. I'm not a painter but want to eventually do this sort of thing. I didn't even know this could happen. It is unfortunate but very helpful for someone like me to s...

So the edit button works?!? Awesome, now where’s that @tv101?

Posted by: @mattbeels match the headstock @mattbeels this was where I was leaning before robin’s suggestion of still wood but contrasting, I can try both i suppose. I don’t want it to be too promine...

@robin I have maple or mahogany, could use the mahogany which would match the neck, I’ll mock one up and see how it goes.

Great job @tej! For the truss rod cover my suggestion is to match the headstock so it blends in and doesn’t obscure that nice looking wood!

@tej I like to make the truss rod cover from wood to match the headstock. If you're going to have a scaled down headstock shape, maybe it would look good in a contrasting wood.

Posted by: @boo They don’t always have to be symmetrical. @boo those were just the ones I’d picked up, for the wooden one I was contemplating a miniature version of the whole headstock, can’t decide...

Posted by: @tej Right, so I’ve fixed the screw and the electrics, turns out it was down to a bad earth connection where I had a glut of wires coming together. Decided to take everything out and rewir...

Right, so I’ve fixed the screw and the electrics, turns out it was down to a bad earth connection where I had a glut of wires coming together. Decided to take everything out and rewire outside the gui...

Yup, Crystalac is the way forward. Long cure time though… You lucky devils in the UK even have a distributor.

Posted by: @boo Crystalac Brite Tone @boo that’s the stuff, must order some to test out!

Congratulations @russ! Sounds like you’re getting a handle on the storage, now get to building! Looking forward to seeing it come together…

Posted by: @russ It's well insulated and will soon be properly ventilated. If that’s the case you shouldn’t need a dehumidifier should you?

Posted by: @russ if I manage to keep it tidy One thing worth doing is to figure out which tools you use often and mount them to a board on the wall. I’m very limited on space here and can’t do that ...

Posted by: @rocknroller912 Autocorrect is beating me again it was supposed to read un heated @rocknroller912 🤣 I know, I’m just being silly. 😉👍