@louis123 Congratulations a great project, I hope it plays as good as it looks.

@blake Good looking I like simple lines

@blake A nicely carved neck joint there, a good job well done.

Great job! Simple is often better! Looking forward to the next build 😉

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@markbailey Brilliant. Thanks for the reassurance Mark. 😀 Super usefull information. I feel much more confident now Huge thanks

Congrats @louis123!

UPDATE i had my presentation today. Everything went great, they were really impressed by my build and drawing. A fellow student is a photographer and took a picture of me at the showcase of my build. ...

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How much wood should I aim to have between the back of the neck and the truss rod chanel after carving? It is quite difficult to measure how much wood is left so don't get too hung up on it...the o...

@tej I suspect it's a combination of1) fretboards are usually a tight grained wood 2) He wipes it off straight away Obviously try it for yourself on a piece of scrap first if you can, but I don't thin...

I think either way would be fine. The wood glue does clean up easily and you still need to do the job of cleaning/scraping the fret board before it is all done anyway so I dont think glue residue woul...

Wood glue is much easier to cleanup than superglue, so long as you do it as you're going along, a damp rag will do it. That's why Ben Crowe has abandoned the superglue approach, I've seen him do both ...

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Thanks guys. @darrenking I'll be in touch about that soon, need to chat with a couple of the other hackspace woodworkers about what we need. I'm also trying to get a bit of a guitar building group hap...

One warning with oil finishes is to be careful with your application cloth/paper disposal. The curing is pretty exothermal and apparently, it's not unknown for things to catch fire if you just lob the...

@boo most ebony species are considerably harder than rosewood.

If you want to do fancy inlays, ebony is probably a better choice than rosewood, the bits you have to fill won't be as visible. @jonhodgson Ebony is quite soft though, it can chip very easily but, li...