Do you buy your fretwire pre rolled and where do you buy it from. I'm planning build #003 now while waiting for lacquer to harden. @robin Thanks Robin. Yes I normally buy it in coils rather than in s...

You're a little Industry @boo. 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Looking good @boo Do you buy your fretwire pre rolled and where do you buy it from. I'm planning build #003 now while waiting for lacquer to harden.

Looking real good @clinton Thanks man. 🤘

Looking real good

I test fitted the tuners and it’s all looking good. It fits into the family nicely (although this one isn’t for me). Attachment : F046DAF1-9504-4F63-A642-3152BBED9C3E.jpeg Attachment : EA8...

All the curves in all the right places @boo. 😁 🙏🎸🎶🙂

A bit more refining and it’s starting to look good. Attachment : 5CA21597-0AC5-46C1-92DD-453FA8A66C36.jpeg Attachment : C7CBB503-F40C-498B-BF65-88EDC78F6609.jpeg Attachment : 98AAEE...

I used a variety of carving tools and got to work. Attachment : F5409F46-38AE-40CC-B2A3-359E5D3F48DF.jpeg Attachment : 09737430-960F-4DAC-994A-077ED98E394E.jpeg Attachment : 1E72B35...

Likewise @Boo.

Starting in my 3rd Bandsman as well. Good looking work! @clinton Excellent, I’m always glad to see your work. 👍

@russ Actually, I’ve just remembered that I got that file from Glued to Music and it is a Iwasaki Thanks for this link too @boo. 🎸🎶🙏🙂

@russ Actually, I’ve just remembered that I got that file from Glued to Music and it is a Iwasaki 👍

@russ Its a StewMac one I think and it’s one of my favourite files. This one I have is a small curved one, I’ll buy some others when money allows I'm not 100% sure @boo but I think the Stewmac files ...

Is that an iwasaki file @boo. What do you think of it? @russ Its a StewMac one I think and it’s one of my favourite files. This one I have is a small curved one, I’ll buy some others when money allo...

Is that an iwasaki file @boo. What do you think of it? 🙏🎸🎶🙂

A bit of carving today, belly carve and lower horn for top fret access. Attachment : 50B23F30-B1D7-44AF-8B18-E567E55D2B26.jpeg Attachment : 2C009D49-C87C-4A1F-95E6-9B0E6C4A7690.jpeg ...

that looks really good,.. clean work! @koendb Thank you, I like to keep things as precise as possible, accuracy is something I aspire to.

@Boo that looks really good,.. clean work!

The body is rough cut from the bandsaw but I couldn’t resist putting the neck in and putting everything in place. Tomorrow I’ll route the body shape to get a cleaner edge and then it’s a lot of sandin...