Oops! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m going from one mistake to another at the moment. It’s all good fun. I was routing a cavity for a string ferrule block in the back of this guitar, using ...

Wowza! What is that? How thick is it? Can you book match it with the pale as a center strip with ebony center fret dots. Even the 12th double markers all in line centered. Pale binding with black side...

Looks like it may need careful handling - was it waxed when you got it?

Thanks @russ and @forcesterbill Yeah I think keeping as much of the figure is a must really but also keeping some of the plain pale stuff too. I’ll definitely need to consider other woods carefully an...

Think it needs a darker body to contrast - perhaps a play with Photoshop or something like to try ideas out?

Looks brilliant - think you want to keep the wavy border all the way up and a bit of the plain pale edge from one end to the other - looking forward to see it on a neck!

I’m very tempted to make a new neck and use this fretboard for this project. Very nice Boo. Difficult decision. It might stand out more on a painted guitar. Glad I'm not trying to decide. 🙂&...

I’m very tempted to make a new neck and use this fretboard for this project. I might save it for a project that is only showing off beautiful wood though, rather than a painted guitar body. I may plan...

Typo... I surface route the bottom part of the mini so the top of the cap is undisturbed to line up to the grain pattern

Routers are horrible things. Aren't you painting this one Boo, I'm sure you can fix that and hide it. @robin Yeah I’m painting it so I can easily do a repair and it will never be seen. I know what ...

“A router is not dangerous so long as the person holding it is not dangerous”. You're absolutely right Boo, all the routing errors on my first build were entirely my fault, not the router's. This tim...

Epoxy and saw dust. If it is gonna be painted anyways.

I guess if you could get the fretboard off you might be able to add a chunk of wood onto the neck and then re-carve but it might take as long as starting again hopefully reusing the fret board.......

@boo Just do the same thing on the opposite end so it matches and call it done! 😜

Planed, sanded, scraped. Attachment : DE7CD2F0-E509-4AF0-9B26-F1DF21A2F778.jpeg Attachment : 208ABE52-C776-4D9A-8B51-695FFEE879F6.jpeg Attachment : DF86CA24-6849-4487-99B9-D4B17DDB8...

Flat and level. Attachment : FE1F78F4-6953-42DD-B44A-7848186D06F3.jpeg

@boo A Trend router, nice! Why did you put in the dowels?

Superglue and sawdust makes everything nice and smooth. It may look like there are still gaps but I assure you they are not, they are filled with superglue. Attachment : 84881FDB-CC23-4ADB-B35E-1...

Today I’ve also drilled holes for other bits of hardware hardware and test fitted it all. Attachment : 10718FD6-78B9-4E6F-B749-724613886D26.jpeg Attachment : 554F286B-8E8D-4D5D-896B-ABF4C8...

@boo, great answer. I like the fact that you are building this one first as a 'practice' and then lending it to the customer to try and then make adjustments / alterations as necessary. Obviously not ...