Welcome to the group, its a great way to retire, you'll soon wonder how you had time to work.

Hello! All I can say is I am excited to get going on this journey, especially as proper power has now been laid in to my shed of dreams. This is really my retirement project. It's been many, many year...

Well this has progressed, body cut out, pickups and control catvity routed, belly carve done and neck on it's way to being done. Tomorrow I'll be carving the top, mostly filing due to the knots lol ...

Carves sorted, frets levelled and polished, fretboard oiled and now the body has finish applied. Next will be to mask up around the pocket and glue the neck in, then mask the body and get finish on th...

@tv101 Will you use your cnc to make the frame. Flat sawn wood will take a curve more that quarter sawn i think as it warps naturally to a curve over time so you will just be accelerating the process...

Said James Bisset, watching the Wright brothers' inaugural flight .... 🤣 That's what I have, vaguely in mind, @rocknroller912. I thought I'd try to make a frame, like an aircraft wing, ...

@tv101 Steam box would be the best way to soften wood to make a difficult shape but I think 3 mm will be a bit thick. Some makers only use a steam box to shape the ribs, them clamp to a dry form and l...

I reckon ‘gradually’ is the secret ingredient here. Question though: if it has never been done before, why not?

Let's imagine that I was vaguely considering making a hollowbody-esque but wanted to avoid the excitement of an @JamesBisset vacuuming-bending-splitting (repeat) saga. Let's also imagine that I had th...

Welcome Emma, wow Uganda, we are a truly international community!!👍😃🎸

@jamesbisset I always thought you had the hump about something just couldn’t work it out, so I’m clear on what it is now thanks

Hii Everyone Myself Emmanuel Katto (Emka) From Uganda... I love to joining the Guitar Making Community.. 😊 ❤️

Last week, I trimmed the edges of the top and back, with a chisel Attachment : IMG_1064.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1066.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1058.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1057.jpeg ...

This wouldn't be important if I was making a double cutaway or no cutaway - it’s only significant if the guitar is not symmetrical across the centreline. But if I’m making a concave mould, then the m...

@jamesbisset Nice work James. Really looking forward to this one progressing. 🙏🎶🙂🎸

@russ baddumtish! 🤣

Got the frets in yesterday and today I got on with side markers, carving the neck, volute and heel a bit and also got the neck pocket routed. I was thinking of adding a tiny angle to the heel so I cou...

It was at the point where we decided to use the mould as a jig, that I realised I’d made the most profound, blindingly obvious mistake right at the very beginning of this build. And no-one seems to ha...

Finally getting down to the actual building of this guitar! Unlike solid sides, these laminations have rough, uneven edges and are not yet cut to size. So one edge was sanded flat on a sanding board, ...

Welcome Chris from about 70 miles further North.