There seems to be a hell of a lot of specialist tools that just aren’t necessary @tej Avoid watching Stewmac videos with Dan Erlewine. They have a tool or jig for every problem you ever thought of, e...

The two main advantages I can see with a fret press are the noise, and that it's possible to achieve a consistency which will require less fret dressing. Hammers are cheaper, take up less space in the...

@tej Also a press isn’t necessarily faster, but it’s definitely more expensive. A small arbor press doesn’t cost a ton (swidt) but it’s more than a hammer plus you need the caul and at least one fret ...

Not to mention the number of normal tools that the price is increased on just by putting the word “luthier” in front of the name 🤔 Yeah @tej. It's good to shop around in the general woodworki...

I imagine that you can do it as quickly with a hammer as you can with a fret press @tej......by the time you set up the press you could have a few of the frets in with a hammer. 🙏😕&#x...

They’re two different techniques to achieve the same result. The method you use will be the one that suits you although depending on the neck construction style you may want to employ both. With a ham...

Got some wood to practice using my handplaners and make scarf joints, etc...It is roughly cut and some pieces are probably unusable as a real neck because of knots. Maybe a few laminated necks with wh...

This hobby isn’t getting cheaper 😬 @tej Welcome to a life of little money but amazing guitars. 🤘😁🤘🎸✨🤣

@markbailey Apologies for any inconvenience - thanks again for your amazing and continued support - it has literally kept me going. Absolutely no need to apologise, family should always be top prior...

Sorry to hear that Mark, that’s awful all around. Last year my father-in-law had a brain bleed and at first it seemed as if he would not recover. It was difficult of course but with therapy he has mad...

Thanks @jonhodgson - d'oh - I just watched the video, didn't check the website!! Brush-on makes it an option for me.

@tej I agree with @tv101 about the bad quality of cheap guitar kits. It’s only when I started building guitars from scratch that I really noticed how inaccurate parts of the cheap kits were. Surely it...

The last month or so has been a bit of a nightmare as some of you know. My mum was suddenly taken ill and needed emergency brain surgery - it was touch and go for a while and they really thought she m...

@tej Drilling out existing holes to make them fit a commercially available dowel can be very tricky as the point of of the drill is starting in fresh air, which means it will wander and give you an ov...

Kits are often useful for the learning opportunities that they bring! You'd think, given that they all just come off a machine out there in Chinaland, that someone could set the machine up properly be...

I’m a bit worried about copy routing the pointy bits, any advice on avoiding tear out on those areas. You can 'Back Route' the corners to prevent break out: Route as normal until you are close to the...

Thanks @markbailey I should have a decent amount to test on once I cut out the body. I hope you are well, we're all thinking about you.

@tej like Mat says and Mark suggests, make a master then a copy from that so if and when you hack into it you have a backup master. @mattbeels you know me and my bandsaw / router skills, it's a 'kind...

I used a complete straight edge to copy route all the actual straight edges onto the template. Well done @cheesewhisk, as long as you got there in the end. Did you then make a backup, is that what’s ...

Cheers @mattbeels yeah so for the master I used straight edges and cut close to the lines with the bandsaw then sanded the curves. Then I used that to make a copy but used a straight edge instead of t...