I’ll be installing the frets shortly but am interested in peoples’ experiences here. Now there seem a number of different approaches with some techniques focussed on making life easy if frets ever nee...

@koendb thank you 🙏

@Tej Looking good man!

Dots are in, 5mm abalone. I used a depth stop on the drill bit to keep everything consistent as opposed to eyeing it in which worked a treat. For the super glue I let a small drip run down a cocktail ...

because in a Lap Steel the neck is never touched. I think the problem is stability of the neck ( twisting /warping ). But perhaps someone with more experience can discard my concern?

Thanks @koendb! I've never done anything like this, so I'll try Danish Oil on some scrap wood that was left over the build to try it on, unless I'll get any other more suggestions from someone more ex...

@ndakota Looking good so far! looks indeed like pine. I don't know if those knots will be a problem or not on a lap steel. On a regular guitar or bass neck, you don't want that. Concerning the finish,...

Progress very much ground to a halt again after life got in the way! I’ve modified the neck workboard now so it has a 4 threaded inserts in that I can screw a support into. The support I made from an ...

Thanks for your feedback @koendb and @tej much appreciated. 👍

@boo I prefer the all black hardware for this, it looks more intentional and the contrast with the bright pink works well to my eye. I can’t really explain why but the white looks like you’d have boug...

I prefer the black too.I do understand @jonhodgson though, but I then would rather keep the black scratch plate with white pickups and accents or perhaps cream ones, as white might be too much of a co...

This guitar is a project I’m doing with two other friends and guitar builders and we already have a colour combination for the guitar but I just wanted to try out a couple of different ones and get so...

I showed the pictures to my wife. She likes the black hardware... but says it reminds her of Gem and the Holograms. 🙂 I also like the black hardware. @bpower Thanks to you and your wife for t...

Hi Everyone! I did some experiments during the lockdown and built up a lap stell from some scrap wood I had in my cellar. Started to be only for fun, but I kinda like what came out! I was looking onl...

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@boo I showed the pictures to my wife. She likes the black hardware... but says it reminds her of Gem and the Holograms. 🙂 I also like the black hardware. 🙂

For me the all black doesn't work. Black hardware and white scratchplate might, but otherwise the white and chrome plate.

@hursty I made a far more severe error with a bigger truss rod and didn’t fix the depth stop on the router properly so the channel at the nut end was way way too deep. Including the depth of the fretb...

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Is every tool in your garage now tinted pink? @jonhodgson No, I used surprisingly little pink candy paint, I only gave it two coats of the pink stuff.