Posted by: @robin
The trick on your next build is not to repeat the mistakes.

I will invent a few new mistakes, I suppose. 😀 

Did it!   There was  some mistakes, some lessons learned, and a lot of fun. It sounds like a guitar and it look lika a guitar. Two more builds are plan ned, I just have to clean out t he…   Read more»

Welcome! I’m relatively new to this forum too, but have already got great answers to my newbie questions (building my first guitar right now). Mark’s clear and logical process for building, paired with this forum makes the guitar making fun…   Read more»

@robin Ouch! 😯 
 

Posted by: @darrenking Posted by: @swepri while testing if it is sharp enough To be a bit more positive, if you didn’t feel the cut, then you must have done a good job of sharpening it! Of course, the traditional…   Read more»

Another tip is to avoid cutting the pad of your index finger with the chisel you just sharpened (while testing if it is sharp enough).

@powerful That is one good looking guitar!

Some progress. Had to work a lot to get the neck profile good enough. I opted for a D-shape and kind of got to that finally. Hopefully easier work on the next build. Side dots tomorrow. Maybe some routing on…   Read more»