It's *never* a stupid thing to stop and ask a question Indeed, just try to avoid my system of asking all the questions about one little details of the design and the route the truss rod slot without ...

@rocknroller912 A fair point, have to say though it’s frustrating where I have screwed up it’s meant things have become more interesting and made me try things I wasn’t planning to at this stage.

it’s different. I like different Indeed it’ll be a little unorthodox but hopefully not to the point of just looking odd, either way it’ll look better than the glaring look of two 10mm dowels in the h...

@hursty by the way if you’re unsure with any of the jigs have a look at the lessons they’re used in, it’ll soon become clear what you can and can’t tweak to your liking. The headstock thickness Jig fo...

Please correct me if I am wrong somebody! I made mine with slightly different dimensions for the rails but cut the angle based on the measurements from the video, worked out fine. Just cut the angle ...

@boo coming along nicely, shame about the board but I think there’s enough to rectify it. Is it like that the whole length?

Slow progress with life getting in the way of late. Neck now profiled with the router and I’ve put the back veneer on. The front one needs to wait until I’ve levelled everything for the fretboard. I w...

Now that I see it I can’t change it, it’s actually kind of funny @mattbeels now that I can see it it’s gonna bug me every post you write 😛😉 @dsari Welcome to the forum, as for: I'll ...

@boo @tv101 Thank you both for your thoughts and advice on this, I really appreciate it.

You mean, some people have *real* friends, not just virtual ones?? @tv101 Yes, back in the olden days people could meet other people, shake hands, hug, chat face to face sat next to each other. Somet...

@boo coming along nicely. Any advice when it comes to the neck angle By the way? Seems like a critical point with little science involved to get it right?

Mark's knowledge is invaluable to us. Couldn’t agree more @russ. For anyone who’s interested there is a lesson in the Acoustic course on laminating headstocks.

@mattbeels pretty much but I’ll sand the veneer to roughly match the rough headstock profile. Suggestion from Mark is to drill an 8mm hole and ream it out to 10mm to remove chance of breakout. Don’t h...

@russ so I mentioned to Mark about this and I need keep the headstock “core” over 13mm which makes sense, I think I might just surface route .5 to .8 mm off each side and then route the veneer down so...

After I’ve applied the veneers and got the edges level with the headstock is there any reason not to surface route the laminate? Ones I ordered are 2mm think and really only wanted 1mm.

@jonhodgson that looks fun, I think if I used a lot of dowel pins it’d be worth knocking together. Certainly quicker thank my little lathe!

So the dowel cutters I have are utterly useless, at least two of you can guess where hey came from? 😉 Had to turn some on the trusty toy lathe. Have some ebony and Indian rosewood veneers on t...

I think I’d rather laminate it than paint it for this build, I’ll have to find some nice wood to do that with as I’ve nothing I can use. I’m presuming this is “simply” a case of roughly cutting the la...

Well it looks like I didn’t learn the lesson about not working on this when tired and I’ve managed to to not only mark out but then drill 2 tuner holes a whole 10mm out 🤬 short of laminating t...

@russ I dare not look, too many web sites trying to part me with money at the moment!!