Thank you very much!

@simecircle Welcome Simon. There are no stupid questions here so ask away. Enjoy the ride 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Welcome to the forum Simon, we're all friendly here and as long are your stupid questions are related to guitar building then fire away.

Hi there I've made a couple of guitars and was looking for a friendly place to ask stupid questions. Would this fit the bill? Some of the forums seem to be for people following the courses only, so ...

@nsj gorgeous!

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Haven't had time to fool with this over the summer. Things have gotten away from me a bit but I now have 14 guitar pedal designs up through the engineering sample phase, 5 of them are production ready...

@russ thank you - that’s all the encouragement I need 😋

@steveh Hi Steve, I've never done it but I have thought about it. Given that Stewmac sell their Fret Arbor Press with a picture of that very process suggests that it can be done I imagine that even...

Has anyone tried installing frets into a fretboard before it’s attached to the neck? Would it just bow the fretboard backwards?

Explorer bodies take a lot of wood! Given that I’ve never made a body with rout for a trem system, FR or otherwise, I guessed that the chances of me making a horlicks of it are quite high, so I though...

ok, so again I’ve proved myself rubbish at showing what I’m up to - it’s a personality trait that I’m working on, please bear with me. I’ve already started this project, so there will be some quick up...

Cheers @clinton. Much appreciated. 🙏🙂🎶🎸

@russ top job!

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Attachment : PXL_20220916_104004285.jpg Place the two pieces of the neck into the vice as shown in this picture and plane the joint flat and square and keeping the angle of the scarf joint. Plane ...

Attachment : PXL_20220916_103726020.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220916_103733357.jpg Measure 90mm from the Nut towards the end of the headstock and mark the position of the scarf joint. I cut it...

Attachment : PXL_20220908_091021219.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220909_141913388.jpg I started by squaring up the neck blank. Planing one of the faces flat and smooth then squaring up both of th...