@russ, I suspect that for the money you may not find better new planes than the River, to lower the cost they have to make savings somewhere, and it seems one area is in the flattening of the plane.So...

So the dowel cutters I have are utterly useless, at least two of you can guess where hey came from? 😉 Had to turn some on the trusty toy lathe. Have some ebony and Indian rosewood veneers on t...

I think I’d rather laminate it than paint it for this build, I’ll have to find some nice wood to do that with as I’ve nothing I can use. I’m presuming this is “simply” a case of roughly cutting the la...

well.... you could make some dowels out of the off cuts when you cut the head stock out (so the color is the same) and glue them in to fill the holes. Then cut new holes. And then, if it was mine, I'd...

Well it looks like I didn’t learn the lesson about not working on this when tired and I’ve managed to to not only mark out but then drill 2 tuner holes a whole 10mm out 🤬 short of laminating t...

Well it looks like I didn’t learn the lesson about not working on this when tired and I’ve managed to to not only mark out but then drill 2 tuner holes a whole 10mm out 🤬 short of laminating t...

You mean, some people have *real* friends, not just virtual ones?? It appears to be occurring.

@russ No personal experience, but having watched this I won't be buying one.

My favourite cover song of the day.

a non-virtual friend You mean, some people have *real* friends, not just virtual ones??

@tv1 It's my design. Maybe a non-virtual friend will make one for your 60th birthday...

I used to use this as a check on journey progress when I used to be driving to work at this time in the morning. Depending on where I'd got to on the A12, the day was either starting well, or not so w...

Who's *not* in Jools Holland's address book? (apart from me).

My favourite song today:

Great movie @Marcel - though I'm not sure that was actually in the movie? No this is a clip from Saturday Night Life, two years before they made the movie.

@tej I have one of these hammers too, they do the job nicely.

Still need a fret hammer and fret end nippers and can’t find a shop with them both at a sensible price and also in stock! There are a few places people have suggested at various points for me to check...

@tej As @russ said you can never have too many clamps. 🤣

@boo looking good, at least what I can see past the sea of clamps does 😉

@russ I dare not look, too many web sites trying to part me with money at the moment!!