My vote went to LIVESTREAMS.   There are already a multitude of YT channels out there for just about every possible topic.  TBH, I rarely watch them because they’re fairly uninvolving (there’s no interaction possible) and I never get round…   Read more»

Firstly, frets can be a very personal thing.  Some people like wide & tall, some prefer thin & low, most people are probably somewhere in the middle! The higher they are, the more recrowning you can do as the guitar…   Read more»

Very Good John. Now you just need to build a radius jig. You seem to have the engineering skill so I’m sure you’ll find a way. Cheers, Russ And if you wouldn’t mine sharing instructions and pics here when you’ve…   Read more»

That jig looks really neat.
I admit that I bought mine (Stewmac, though when the $/£ rate was much better!).
Do the bearings function as a depth stop for the saw too?

And this is how it looks today …   https://i.imgur.com/B49eY6O.jpg   Of course, you can see the outline of the plug close-up, but the pickup and bridge do a pretty good job of hiding the different grain patterns between the…   Read more»

(Photo uploads are now erroring, so linking instead)
The next bit took a bit of precision cutting and sanding, and then the assistance of Mr Mallet.

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Now, lets trying routing out the pickup cavity again ..

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Bit of staining and oiling …

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Ahhh, look, *that’s* where the pickup cavity was, originally.
And, that’s also where it really ought to be.

 
And now, one nice clean – if rather large – hole in that lively birdseye maple cap

It was about a year later before I decided to try to fix the result of my inability to do basic maths.  (Despite what my A-level certificates might say). My mis-rout had actually removed the cap more-or-less where the bridge…   Read more»

Right then @markbailey @Russ, your breaths can now be unbaited … Feeling rather chuffed with myself (did I mention that already) for rescuing this guitar, and also a little impatient to get on and get it all done, I decided…   Read more»

Here you can see the carve blends in the extra thickness. I was feeling quite chuffed with myself at this point. This point was just before the next point.  The next point is where I kicked myself.   It’s…   Read more»

Next stage, glue the cap to the body, and then start carving the cap …

You can see the difference in thickness in the pic above.  The outer ledge is a contact thickness, whereas the inner part is the…   Read more»