A big part of the fun in guitarmaking is to manufacture jigs and tools along the way. Today I made a little holder for an indicator clock, to use when filing the nut slots. Of course posh brass ones c...

Posted by: @tv101 Posted by: @swepri A (partly failed) brass powder inlay on the headstock Looks like I can't multi-quote in a reply 🙁 That comment reminded me of something I was planning on try...

@tv101 You are absolutely right. Here are a few pictures. The body is european ash and curly birch (very old, from my aunts farm). There is a weight relief cave in the "upper" part of the body, but no...

Attachment : 00001_x264.mp4 Had a lot of other stuff to do, including getting a new puppy and building a greenhouse. But finally, here is the unclamping of the neck glue-up on my second build. Now...

@clinton Great looking guitar. What did you use to get that shiny finish?

Posted by: @boo The only thing I’m worried about is if too much wood is taken out of the body (hollowness), whether the guitar would be too heavy and unbalanced, literally. Yes, that is a concern. I...

@boo The fretboard is rosewood. I am planning to do a semi-hollowbody, loosely based on the Bandsman shape. The first build turned out very heavy, so why not try a variation with a thin top and some r...

@boo Man, you made me go straight out to the workshop and thickness/plane a new fretboard blank! 👍

@boo Looking good! I think I will have to start a new build soon. Hard to resist when seeing other builds... 😀

@boo Beautiful guitar. And that is the right kind of case candy! 😀

Beautiful!

Thank you guys. I have played it for an hour or two and have some minor adjustments to do. It played well immediately without any other adjustment than the bridge height, but I need to deepen the slot...

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 planned, I just have to clean out the workshop and ge...

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 wit...

@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...

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 rou...