Get some neck-blank sized scrap timber and try the bit on that first.  Then get another…   Read more»

Job #1 – fit the cavity covers.  Mainly so that I could trim the edges of the back-cap, and do the roundover on them.  Wanted to have a consistent roundover all the way round, including the edge of the control…   Read more»

I glued the back-cap on last night, and used a few clamps to prevent a recurrence of the gappy join …

  That seemed to work. Had to take the car into the dealer this morning for some warranty…   Read more»

I like the curves on that design @nsj – I can’t do anything quite like that on this build, but I had something similar in mind.
Also really like the fact that you use proper cavity covers on your builds!!

Spot on @NSJ. I used a standard Tele plan as the core for the CNC design, and the standard plan assumed a standard 4…   Read more»

Not that @Robin – I’ll just redrill the bolt holes from the top through the new cap and use the holes as the centre points for the 15mm recess holes. Similarly, I should be able to find the thru-body string…   Read more»

 
After the first few hundred*, you get past that stage
 
 
 
* years.
🤣 🤣 
 

I find masks a real pita – usually make my glasses steam up – so I don’t typically bother with them unless I’m doing something either *really* messy, or using some of then nastier timbers. But I do try to…   Read more»