looks the same as the one that just arrived, interestingly the bottom looks far from flat ground too, presuming that’s not actually been a problem for you? @tej It’s been fine for me. I’ve never checked the flatness of it…   Read more»

@tej, Ben Crowe has a couple of live Q&As a week (one is live right now), you could ask him what his suggestion is for flattening a block plane on a budget.

@tej there are quite a few plane restoration videos on youtube, basically you want the flattest surface possible and some sandpaper.I think vintagetoolshop probably flatten any planes that need it before selling themhttps://youtu.be/jkTsN926LTg?t=1795A fairly common approach seems to be the…   Read more»

Been enjoying this today

@tej Top song from a marvellous guitarist and musician. I like a lot of Satch’s stuff, this whole album is superb. Although, Surfing with the Alien is probably favourite Satch album. 

does the piece of metal work better than a blade for scraping the surface after? @tej Yeah, it’s a cabinet scraper. A blade is just like a mini version, an alternative. You can get cabinet scrapers in many shapes and…   Read more»

Just for you @tej This little plane has never let me down. 

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@tej I got an engineers flat surface from this firm. Not cheap but it has a test certificate accurate to 0.001mm. Solid polished granite and very heavy about 50mm thick I think. For soft water stone abrasive paper can be…   Read more»

@tej This one’s not too bad either 😉

Start here @tej

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That might be a bit hard but I do have an ebony plank I got from David Dyke suppliers a while ago, not sure if ebony is good for laminating it might better just for fretboards.

@tej I didn’t think of checking the web it’s too much like being back at work

@tej Thats what I did, a fill in strip to raise the depth where I was making it deeper for the adjusting nut. Necks are laminated anyway so it should be ok. I also had bad side tear out so…   Read more»

@tej Dont worry, my test run on an old neck blank of not very good quality was so bad I’m not even going to share it. I went too deep in one spot also but hand fitted a patch or…   Read more»

It’s all a learning experience @tej. Hang on in there. 👍😁 
🙏🎶🎸🙂

@tej I use a small block plane for that same purpose in guitar building but not much else I don’t think. I once heard Mark say that he has a really cheap block plane for these types of jobs, no…   Read more»

yeah but it’d look awesome until manhandled though 🙂

@tej It would look stunning, I must admit. It would be torture knowing I couldn’t play it though. 

Interesting point, honestly hadn’t considered that! @Tej I must watch more videos than you do, it’s a pretty common opinion. I’ve actually never heard a professional luthier say the glue was needed to hold the fret in (though there may…   Read more»

@tej Everybody has different methods. I don’t glue frets in unless it’s an acoustic re fret over the sound box where I can’t press or hammer, although I should say I’m changing some of my methods after watching Mark’s videos….   Read more»

Sorry @tej…

@mattbeels it’s fine, suppose it’s ok for  someone else asks questions too 😛

Ooops, I meant @hursty! D’oh!
Sorry @tej…