Attachment : 640048EA-CC06-4A9E-8086-FD0299814757.jpeg Nothing makes me happier than a newly built Tenor Ukulele. Better yet, made out of Koa and Wenge. Cannot wait to hear the sound of this thing...

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Hello there @stephen, sounds like you’ve already gotten great advice and encouragement. This is a super cool place to be, welcome!

I'm *just* manly enough to go into Screwfix 🙂 I don't want to get laughed out of a lumber yard for building a guitar and not a house 😉 @stephen No, don’t think like that. The lumber y...

Again, thank for the welcome - and I'm sure great advice. I'm just about finished my 2nd kit build, I've learned A LOT - some of which I'll go back and apply to my 1st kit and even some of my more aff...

@tej What I’m thinking now is to do that to get the built up finish off and then colour the hole with soft graphite pencil lead and go over again until I’m back to wood, I think I only need to remove...

@tej Only concern now is that the bridge is a very tight fit in the mount holes, I hadn't masked off the bridge post holes when I lacquer my current build, so the holes have shrunk with all the lacq...

@tej Hey man, I’ve somehow missed all of this, just caught up now. It’s all looking superb and you just have to work through the mistakes, it’s part of the job. I’m looking forward to seeing the finis...

Just got think link from a friend who is an industrial chemist

not sure about others but I used a table saw with a jig I use to square rough planks. Happy to elaborate with picture if it’s of use? Some pictures would be great @tej. Cheers, 🙂🙏&#x...

Thanks Mark for the advice, I will give this a go tomorrow!

There is plenty of room for error at this stage so it's probably just fine... Here is what to do: Ignore it...for now... Carve the 3rd facet and continue as normal... When you get to the 'Add more fac...

Hey guys, I’m in the middle of carving my first neck and have hit a (hopefully minor) snag. As you can see from the pics I’ve rough carved the side facets - one larger facet, and one smaller section t...

My local wood miller is going out of business. My main source of local Koa. Bummer. All good. As a gesture of his appreciation from all the ukuleles and guitars I built from his stacks, he gave me a s...

My local wood miller is going out of business. My main source of local Koa. Bummer. All good. As a gesture of his appreciation from all the ukuleles and guitars I built from his stacks, he gave me a s...

Sounds familiar @Boo, I think I'm getting to the stage where building another kit again won't teach me too much... And expensive hobbies... when I'm not being a wannabe luthier I'm a wannabe cyclist! ...

I hope my next project will be something along the lines of starting with a body blank, perhaps with a ready-made neck - making a neck still looks intimidating! @stephen Yep, I’ve done that a few tim...

@stephen perhaps with a ready-made neck - making a neck still looks intimidating! Making your own guitar neck for the first time is a daunting thing, but once you get started, it's not so difficult...

Any opinion is welcome here! A servicable router would have cost about as much as my first kit, not to mention the materials like mdf and/or plywood for making templates. I can't comment on acoustic i...

@stephen Welcome to the forum. I’m going to swim against the tide and say that building kits is harder than starting with blank pieces of wood and templates. Seriously though kits, particularly acoust...