Hello folks, I'm trying to make a little soprano ukelele from bits of wood left over from other projects Attachment : 20230724_204045.jpg and thought I'd craft a rosette from a ring of rosewood...

@robin Looks great. 🙂

I've got a little bit more done. It took me a couple of attempts to join the top, after the first attempt, a split appeared about 3mm from the joint, so I cut it and tried again. The top is stika spuc...

@robin That sounds fantastic. I know my daughter absolutely loves getting involved with the build. She talks about her diamonds all the time. Also.... acoustics are wayyyyyyyy better than electric gui...

@bpower That all looks great, I really need to be getting on with my acoustic build, seeing this is helping to spur me on. I like the way you're getting your daughter involved, my daughter gave me a ...

Next was clean up the glue squeeze out and start making some center seam diamonds. Just like all my other guitars I enlisted the help from my daughter. I love getting her involved. You never know... s...

ok... It seems like this build is taking a long time but I'm enjoying the relaxed pace. Here are a few more progress pics. I didn't like the carve on one of the braces (upper face brace) so I removed ...

Looking forward to the best outcome mate!

@robin Yes, I couldnt do it but I tend to wear gloves rasping the neck and half way through I seem to take it off again and deal with the blisters on my hand.

@clinton When I started watching your video marking out the neck carve, my first thought was that I couldn't do that with any accuracy with gloves on. I was glad to see you take the goves off, I don'...

@usadave Nice work Dave. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

Nice One!

Attachment : IMG_6193.MOV Rough Neck

Bodybuiding Attachment : IMG_6185.MOV

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to post my second guitar. Finished it up and gave it to a friend. Could not have done it without Mark's courses and the advice from the community. On to #3... (Hopefully I'l...

Keep it up, good going!

Well had a bit of finish issues, hard to see in the pic but I sanded through the polyurethane in areas creating light patches, anyway I sanded it all back and now ready to spray again. Hoping the weat...

Here we have it...... Attachment : PXL_20230203_140356596.jpg 🙂🙏🎸🎶

Attachment : PXL_20230203_133934791.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230203_133925655.jpg The next stage was the making of the X-brace. The measurements for this are a bit long winded but I'll happil...

I’m sorry guys, I’m just terrible at documenting my builds. 🤦🏼‍♂️ I’ve gotten to the point of working on the finish for this one. Started working on the front on ...