Thought I would start the body. First bit was to rout out the cavity - the mahogany blank is about 41mm thick so the cavity needs to be 29mm deep. I created a pattern the edges are 15mm thick. Transfe...

Fillet glued and clamped. Planed - used nice new Luban block plane...

Hi Bill Many thanks for posting these pics. I do find it interesting to see other people's builds, and their very tidy workshops. So the more the merrier please. I was rather timorous and didn't uploa...

Rumbling on here in sunny (was today) Frocester - profiled the neck - was a bit of a coward at the nut end and stopped and started a bit short of the mark but otherwise OK. Will get in there with my...

The old iMac in the ‘workshop’ was scrapped from work because it couldn’t be updated to the current operating system - it is now running Neverware the Google OS so I can watch the Guitar Making videos...

Headstock thicknessed and tuner holes drilled - tested holes with tuners..... Extended/widened the channel for truss rod at nut end and tested that I can adjust truss rod with Allen key.

Started...... Baileys now supply a 6mm truss rod - it needs the slot making a bit wider at the nut end as the adjuster is slightly more than 6mm. Headstock angle cut and truss rod slot widened at end...

Making a start - routed a test slot for my truss rod into a bit of kitchen work top - only worried about the width at this point... Hope to get up courage and cut real truss rod slot later this week....

The workshop - a bit of my garage - going to get cold in the middle of winter but was a reasonable temp just now.

@tv1010101 Nice work that top is lush! Also good choice on the humbucker and P90 combo, you dont see this enough of production guitars. Its much more balanced than a humbucker and single coils.

It’s about 8 hours from here with a couple of stops........ That’s assuming that the M6 is a motorway and not a car park.....

@david-johnson09 In defence of drummers (and i do find the jokes funny BTW), in my now defunct village band, Brian the drummer, was by far the most accomplished musician amongst us and he was an absol...

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Guitar builders are a very small and often forgotten minority group in great danger of extinction.

If you leave the guitar in just the right place maybe you'll get away with it ?

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@tv1010101 thanks mate, yeah I think I'll be on 10 or 11 hours!

Seeing Deej's first build made me realise I never posted mine. I've been a member for ages but I'm sorry to say pretty inactive on the forum. Seeing weekly vids on youtube has made me want to be come ...