Not long now, sprayed the body today, now to leave it 24 - 48 hours then on to assembly. Attachment : 20230527_154914.jpg Attachment : 20230527_154900.jpg

@jamesbisset The cutaway is not quite cut yet. Major but Minor adjustment it seems like and it is your only recourse with a slight adjusting of the humps.

Apologies for the brief hiatus as I try to finish the album of tunes I performed for Acoustic Bliss last year. I’ve given myself until the end of the month. But meanwhile, here’s an interesting snippe...

Going to just start a thread here to post pictures and comments around my first build. Here we go! Attachment : PXL_20230525_032523740.jpg

Next up, I had already glued up the top, which you got a glimpse of up above this post. Attachment : IMG_20230523_112002.jpg It's still thicker than I want, but it's pretty soft too so I'll hav...

Got a little work done on this this week, last week of school. Hopefully things continue going well, however I don't like the way the CNC software for the router does its toolpaths. Turns out, the sof...

Attachment : IMG_6060.MOV Neck pocket templates

Attachment : IMG_5760.MOV Attachment : IMG_5755.MOV Laminated Koa Bodies

@kalimar Welcome to the group. It's a great course, easy to follow. I'll be signing up for the courses again soon to continue my acoustic build.

Welcome to the builds. It does not disappoint. It is very gratifying!

Welcome @kalimar You've picked a great course to get you started. Enjoy the ride. Looking forward to seeing your guitar develop. 🎸🎶🙏🙂

Welcome along

That's the neck glued in and post holes done, stil a bit more sanding then onto finish. Attachment : 20230523_172052-01.jpeg

@swepri Thanks so much. I have access to a lovely maker space here so I hope to put the tools and myself to work this week! I'll try to post photos here, but I'll definitely have them on instagram _ka...

Hello friends. I just signed up for mark's course on building electric guitars. Looking forward to it

All of my larger presses (4m3 per hour and upwards) have a built-in vacuum adjustment knob so the pressure can be slowly increased. This is a technique that only applies when using a slow cure UF resi...

You mean this stuff: Diethylene glycol monoethethyl ether. I bought a coupl of 2.5l bottles of it from a lab supplies company 15 years ago and I;ve still got some. The one I have is made by Merck but ...

Frets all levelled, crowned and polished. Side markers done, everything sanded to 240 grit. Something went slightly off somewhere so the neck angle ended up a bit off so I made a shim that goes from a...

The method Mark uses for carving the neck is so quick using mahogany, took me less than an hour to crave the neck, heel and do the volute. Got the frets in earlier before carving. Attachment : 2...

@tv101 Apparently, the application I use to generate the toolpaths (and do the design work, though I've really only done 2D stuff), says that it can import STL or DXF files - and a whole load more b...