@russ I just happen to be next to it at the moment so here’s what it’s like. You can see how clean the holes drill for dots. Attachment : CF3498A8-2A0F-4EFA-9BB5-BC6F43F11765.jpeg Attachme...

@tej sounds to me like you let the metal get too hot. Unless you're grinding HSS tools you need to make sure things don't get hot, if it changes colour then you've compromised the hardening.

@tej Jon is correct. Heating metal goes though colours - blue, yellow, red then white. Hardening is done by heating to cherry red then quenching in oil as Mark demonstrated on the live stream making a...

There's also a calculator on the stewmac site. Fanned frets are where things get fun, and rather harder to build a jig for. GMC have a number of fixed ones (basically a bent over sheet of metal with t...

That’s interesting @richie718. Think I’d just buy the Bagpress jig & templates though - that’s an even easier option!

@mattbeels 😴 😜

Ahhh @koendb... I didn’t look at the photos close enough. It was before I fell asleep so I wasn’t paying enough attention 😆

@tej These are my fret pullers that I mentioned earlier. Attachment : 519D7DD6-8277-472A-97B1-0732ECC96C09.jpeg

not sure in duty from Europe now @tej, yeah thats why I prefer mainland Europe companies lately. I do buy from UK/US based luthier shops on occasion, but only if I can't find it here. Nothing to do w...

The only I’m confident with is the nut files one of you kind people suggested already, a set of 3 double edge ones from Hosco That was me @tej 😉 I would suggest the fretting hammer made by Su...

what’s your plan with the ferrules then, settled on that yet? Not sure what your plan was with the filler but wanted to let you know I’d tried to use filler in the past and if you try to drill near ou...

Excellent @koendb! Looks like this one is done! 👍

Hard to see from the pics ... are the edges of the scratchplate straight or bevelled? @tv101 They are bevelled, but not enough to my liking, I think I should have used a 45º routerbit instead of a ...

Attachment : IMG_20210501_110725669.jpg Attachment : IMG_20210501_110714318.jpg This morning I ve made a pickguard template and an almost perfect fitting pickguard, using a jigsaw for the ...

I get much of my tools from Guitars and Woods in Portugal and TLC guitar goods in the Netherlands, My fret puller and fret cutter are from G&W and pretty cheap . I believe I paid 32 euros for thes...

Most of my tools are from Crimson, and they all seem excellent. Some they buy in (like the hosco nut files) others they make themselves.The company is owned by a total tool-nut (his other business is ...

@tej I use ordinary end cut pliers from the local diy shop with the end filed or ground to make a flat. They work fine and cost £2. When I go back to work later I will take a photo. Before I got fret ...

StewMac used to use DHL to ship to the UK - don’t know if they still do. Upside: incredibly fast. Downside: they’ll *always* bill you the full VAT & Duty due on the package value. If you assume...

Afraid I got most of my tools from StewMac. In my defence, it was about £1=$2 at the time ....

I didn’t manage to get the pin in the hole on the 10th fret, I think I just dug into the wood and thought it was in.