@rocknroller912 all down to personal preference I guess, personally love a neck to be super thin but know people who love and hate either extreme.

Superglue + fretboard = sadness

Frets cut and ready to seat Attachment : F4D9AD62-8BD9-4183-81AF-DD9257A2E96C.jpeg Attachment : D515E378-C66C-44E4-BAE2-BE9F23BFE2BB.jpeg

Dent, what dent 🙂 Attachment : 714D288F-AD17-4BC1-A7D0-1417DAC94D50.jpeg

@robin come to think of it there was a small pot of “something” provided when I bought stain and finish for a kit build guitar, wonder if that’s what it was!

Neck looks beautiful BTW! 😲 👍 Thanks, appreciate the comment! I’ve got a droplet sat on it now, presuming as the grain is pretty tight it’ll take a fair while to absorb. Next job is t...

@ndakota I’ve got some of this I’ll be using: Have a look on YouTube as there was a product demonstration/tutorial for it somewhere. From the reviews 3 or 4 coats would leave a nice satin sheen on it...

@robin Is it transparent then, would you use it before or after staining? Sounds like another technique I need to test anyway!

@markbailey This is the dent (bottom left) I was talking about. I’ll opt for the drop off water first and see if that helps before trying anything more severe! Attachment : BE026BE3-48B5-4C35-B542...

@koendb thanks for the rundown, I’d agree that claims of tonal improvement from filling the gaps are significant on an electric guitar are unlikely. I’m yet to see or indeed hear any proof of anything...

@robin Sorry for the tough time your family is having. Guitar is looking good, bet you’re pleased. Is the point of grain filling just to give a physically smooth surface?

@koendb, so key question from your second build, what was the difference?

I’ll be installing the frets shortly but am interested in peoples’ experiences here. Now there seem a number of different approaches with some techniques focussed on making life easy if frets ever nee...

…not abalone, mother of Pearl! Oh for an edit function that works!?!?!?! I’ve MOP for the side dots too but they’re very thin so need to make sure they’re only very marginally proud when glued in so I...

@koendb thank you 🙏

Dots are in, 5mm abalone. I used a depth stop on the drill bit to keep everything consistent as opposed to eyeing it in which worked a treat. For the super glue I let a small drip run down a cocktail ...

@boo I prefer the all black hardware for this, it looks more intentional and the contrast with the bright pink works well to my eye. I can’t really explain why but the white looks like you’d have boug...

Progress very much ground to a halt again after life got in the way! I’ve modified the neck workboard now so it has a 4 threaded inserts in that I can screw a support into. The support I made from an ...

@hursty I made a far more severe error with a bigger truss rod and didn’t fix the depth stop on the router properly so the channel at the nut end was way way too deep. Including the depth of the fretb...

Thanks for the ideas guys, as it happened I stumbled across a bottle of deep penetrating oil today which I’m going to test out over my dyed scrap. I think it’ll give a similar result to those posted. ...