I have some old frets off a knackered guitar so I’ll experiment with different glue like I should have done before doing it on my actual build 😬

@frocesterbill ok so this is something I’ve clearly missed, had no idea that you could get different viscosity super glue. I’ll know for next time!

@frocesterbill Thanks, indeed where it worked it looks fantastic it’s just the few where too much glue came out. i did some experiments after screwing some of this up too and turns out what’s happenin...

@rocknroller912 I might need to do this as the fret board has ever so slightly snuck beneath the body. Alternatively I could just taper the very top outside edges of the pocket to match so it looks mo...

Hi, am I being a bit slow here, I have a template I made to cut a recess for the control cavity. Is there a way I can use that to make a perfect template to make the cover from or is it a case of sand...

@robin thanks, I’ve made both horns a bit thinner now too so the lower one doesn’t block things, it’s a little annoying still but overall I’m not going to spend “that” much time at the 24th anyway! Wi...

So my not so trusty dust extractor died last night and I need a replacement. If anyone has an M-class extractor they’d recommend, especially if it’s relatively cheap I’d love to hear about it!? There ...

@koendb I always wear a strap with the guitar quite high so I can have the neck at a high angle so there’s no strain on my wrist. On the rare occasion I don’t use a strap I’ll have it one my left leg ...

You could almost be fooled into thing this Is going to be a guitar. I’ve got a small design flaw on my part, the lower horn, despite taking more of the thickness out is still in the way at the last fe...

@robin turns out that I needed very little in terms of carving for the belly and wrist carves so they’re both quite slight. In might need to carve the lower horn out a little more to allow better acce...

@robin thank you for that, I think that is certainly too deep for what I want as it’s mean there’d be a ridge between them that’d be too thin. I think what I might do is just start off shallow on both...

For this build I want a belly carve, and also a carve on the front so my wrist isn’t resting on an edge. I’m also going to carve the front and back inside edges of the horns. After marking out the bel...

So I’m a little less concerned about this now, in terms of the fretboard and the strings running parallel to the edges it lines up fairly close, the bridge will need to be maybe .5mm off the centre li...

I used the fides oil @steveadams was it a tinted oil? Also have you by chance tried that oil over a coloured water based stain?

@koendb set neck, not sure how I’d go about making a shim thin enough! Anyway I should check it against the path of the strings and bridge first and check how big the problem is, sorry, should have do...

@koendb excellent, looking forward to hearing it once I get everything together 🙂 I dropped a Dimarzio True Tone (think that’s what it’s called) into the bridge, mainly as a sadly quite expens...

The pickups I used in this Bailey Bandsman are Hot Slags from Iron Gear. @boo I wish I’d asked you for some sound samples now, those are the same pups I chose for my build!

@bpower tidy work 🙂

So after putting some straight edges either side of the fretboard with the neck in the socket it’s a few mm off centre at the bridge, plan today is to temporarily put the nut on and run threads for th...

@rocknroller912 could you use some tool wax on it, presuming the result would be sanded it should cause issues?