My Tonetech black CA gave up before I could use it (very cold workshop) so I’m looking around for a suitable replacement for doing my Mother of Pearl inlays into ebony. Tonetech now supply a ‘semi-tra...

@liebe it'll either be extra quiet or extra noisy lol

@nsj utter madness, I absolutely love it! I supposed shielding the electrics shouldn't be a problem...

Cut my first ever f hole today and glued the plate on the headstock Attachment : 20240513_122858.jpg Attachment : 20240513_145225.jpg

My Lovely Horse 😆

I look away for a moment - a moment - and @Russ has posted another month's worth of listening for me. 😉 Prompted by his comment on another thread, my song-of-the-moment is quite a few songs. I had ...

@tv101 might need to be a short scale proper acoustic?? She does prefer the acoustic, I just need to strum it and she crawls over, climbs up and joins in.

Just check the child protection laws @Robin ... 🤣 ... might need to be a short scale proper acoustic?? Congrats, that's a super cute pic

Hey @tv101, Well, it's a bit of a long story, but I'll keep it short as I've been meaning to pop a progress post up, but keep making progress and not taking any photos 🤦🏻 Anyway, I'm c...

@brie Yeh basically a neck through. Anyway been back at it, F hole next Attachment : 20240506_160438 (1).jpg Attachment : 20240508_233353 (1).jpg Attachment : 20240509_145720.jpg...

And good to see you (and everyone else) still here @Russ! I've been doing no building at all in the last year-ish, so it seemed a bit fraudulent to be posting on a guitar making forum! But JimBo me...

Excellent. To be fair, that was implied by your titling of this thread ("my first laminated semi-hollowbody" implies that you were planning a second and maybe a third, fourth, fifth and more), so rea...

No mishap. It’s been on the drawings from the beginning. How could I, a simple brute peasant, reference the classic elegance and sophistication of D’Angelico and D’Aquisto? Simples. A wee hole. Almo...

@robin You’re a bad man 😉 My darling wife told me not to be such a fussy bugger. and I’ve decided this is a prototype - a proof of concept. But I really need to work on these slipping glue jo...

@jamesbisset The edges glued well, with no gaps, but of course the back moved when I wasn’t looking. It’s cosmetic, because without a centreline you wouldn’t know but grrrr... If the misaligned cen...

@tv101 I'm trying to workout what mishap occurred that needed the "decorative hole" at the top as a fix??? I'm guessing that it might have been a nail hole.

I'm trying to workout what mishap occurred that needed the "decorative hole" at the top as a fix???

After an extended hiatus, I went back to the workshop to glue on the back. Attachment : IMG_0246.jpeg I made a couple of MDF clamping rings to help distribute the pressure and hold everything i...

That was pretty much how I did mine, and it worked fine. I used a roundover cutter rather than sanding a chamfer (using the router allowed me to make a wonderful mistake, that's another story) and the...

Attachment : 20240507_114911.png Attachment : 20240507_114935.png FYI - Tele body blank routed to become a Tele Custom using 5mm black plexi as a template cut on laser cutter using Lightbur...