Does anyone know where I can get bright yellow (not gold mop) inlay dots please? It could be plastic or any other suitable material really.

@jonhodgson Yeah I think I’ll email him, see what he can suggest, thanks. I need something to match this yellow on the pickup, something quite vivid. Attachment : FB99FC16-34BB-44E2-8DFB-B75242B...

@russ No grain

@russ I don't know about Ebano, but I have a Rocklite Sundari (fake rosewood) blank here and it has grain. If I didn't know it was engineered I'd assume it was real wood, maybe not rosewood (I don't h...

This stuff is also interesting, though they don't post prices. They produce fake rosewood etc by compressing other woods (such as maple). It seems they compress a sollid piece, so the original grain i...

@tej Here is the video

@tej Marquetry is different to fretboard inlays, it’s contrasting pieces of cross grained wood traditionally fixed in with hot hide glue. Tracing paper can be used for both to draw the shape, so for ...

@tej Here is the link plus one on the knife it might be mentioned in both. Hope you have got Aldi out of your system, their advertising blurb is as infectious as Covid. Don’t be fooled again, ha...

Angle grinder! (seriously) Hmmmmm @jonhodgson - I think I'll try working with the CNC machine first! Though I can imagine it being the sort of approach that Crimson would use. Not criticising them a...

@tv101, if you have a CNC machine, then fair enough.Crimson use theirs for their production line models, it's the one offs and student builds that use the angle grinder method. They're not unique in d...

They’re brave - letting students loose with an angle grinder on a course build!

@boo You can get ones with holes in them which when they spin makes the disk almost transparent so you can see what you're doing. I haven't tried them myself yet, but I met a guy who'd used them on a ...

Cheers @rocknroller912 I just watched someone on YouTube saying that very same thing. The traditionalist in me still wants to use natural wood but maybe it's the way forward. 🤔🤨
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@russ Ive got a fingerboard included in a Martin D28 kit I’m half way through building it looks ok and not as liable to split as Ebony.

Has anyone ever used this stuff?....... what did you think of it? 🙂🎸🎶🙏

@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!