The guys from the Andertons Youtube channel have done a whistlestop tour of some of the big American guitar factories. Here’s the video of the Gibson Nashville plant, which is where they’ve recently m...

@swepri thanks buddy!

After a brief hiatus, I've moved on with carving the neck profile, radiusing the board, installing front dots and adding a headplate. I seem to be making design decisions a bit on the fly. The positio...

@boo That is a solid bench!

Looks good @Boo!

I’ve finally got completely fed up of using wonky, cobbled together, sagged in the middle, unflat so-called work benches. I’m finally building a half decent but solid woodworking bench, it’s not the b...

It is the MicroJig system with dovetail grooves. The clamps costs an arm and a leg, but it is worth every swedish krona.

@swepri Fantastic! Hey, I like your hold down clamping bench, I may have to make one of those. I’m just in the middle of making a proper workbench, it’s absolutely solid. I’m going to order a big face...

@liebe I followed the great step-by-step process from @boo that he posted in this thread: I admit, drilling the access hole was not the easiest step. I also prepared a bit more than in the pictures a...

I've replaced the video of the John Spijker Trio I posted a few weeks ago for the same video but now with better audio. We recorded the gig on 12 tracks (1 for the vocals, 1 for the guitar, 1 for the ...

@russ By the looks of it, the result is very consistent. I had no problems with fret ends springing up and they all seems to be seated properly. I have not checked or leveled the frets yet, but I expe...

@swepri Love the fret press, I must must must get one.

Fantastic, looks like you’ve done a great job of that. Good shooting with the truss rod access hole and great transition curve from the headstock to the nut area. The issue with the images loading in...

Today I pressed the frets in with my brand new fret press. It is a bit fiddly to use the press, but the end result is more consistent than using a hammer, in my opinion. Filed the sharp fret ends down...

So far, I have only made set neck guitars. Time to try something else - a jazzmaster inspired build. I got some great advice from @Boo on making the neck, so I started out. I bought some maple last su...

Beautiful as usual. 👏👏👏👏

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@russ Thanks for the welcome advice, I'll keep that in mind when I get to that stage. Its all back up on top of the wardrobe again for wee while, I'm back at the caravan now for a couple of weeks, go...

I've been a wee bit more productive today. I glued a stop block onto my workbench and sharpened my plane blade, that helped things along. So got the rest of the braces done and marked out where they g...