Progress very much ground to a halt again after life got in the way! I’ve modified the neck workboard now so it has a 4 threaded inserts in that I can screw a support into. The support I made from an ...

I actually just finish a lot of my builds with only shellac. I really like how my (shellac) finishes look and , more important, feel.Now I am not doing a french polish or anything like that, I just pu...

Thanks for the ideas guys, as it happened I stumbled across a bottle of deep penetrating oil today which I’m going to test out over my dyed scrap. I think it’ll give a similar result to those posted. ...

Hi Tej, Autocorrection kicked in, it is Hardwax oil. A mixture of oil and wax, normally used on floors. After staining I used another oil to get the intense yellow off a bit and also enhance the grai...

@bart-van-der-kemp Thanks, the finish looks good, not familiar with “hardware oil” have you got a link to the product please? Also did the oil alter the colour from when you stained it at all?

Hi Tej, I have used Osmo Hardwax Polyx oil for my last build. I stained an alder body yellow and then put 5 thin layers hardware oil over it. After applying a thin layer I waited about 12 hours for th...

Attachment : A235DCFC-F998-4EB2-98BD-F264293163BD.jpeg Attachment : 37AD4CDB-FCBA-4AAB-8689-0D84E0E55C08.jpeg Neck nearly done now, angle of the heal is a little steeper than I’d like so mi...

@koendb Don’t have it to hand, off the top of my head it’s going to end up 23mm at the headstock end. There’s a sizeable step from where I didn’t lock the depth stop in which means there’s now only ab...

As I screwed up the initial root for the truss Rod I can’t actually make the neck as thin as I wanted as I’ll end up with a hole in the back of the neck! @Tej How deep is the trussrod channel and wha...

Getting there with the neck, heal needs a lot more work still but the rest is pretty much there. I got a real issue though with the thickness. As I screwed up the initial root for the truss Rod I can’...

Slow progress after more illness! At some point I’m not going to need a new tool to do the next step, the carving is going well but the rasp I have is way to big for the heel and volute(?) so waiting ...

now with a small chip too so I’ll need to reprofile the edge and wrap the headstock with something to protect while I carve the neck. I gave up caring about tear out and small dings and chips, caus...

@russ cheers, it’s good from that angle, on the left though it’s literally paper thin, now with a small chip too so I’ll need to reprofile the edge and wrap the headstock with something to protect whi...

Looks great to me @tej. 👍🙂 🙏🎸🎶🙂

Took it down a little thinner than planned, as the tape slipped and I didn’t notice until it was too late, thankfully didn’t go through the veneer but it was pretty close!!! Attachment : E3A3F4E6...

Front laminate done, no slipping during clamping so the truss rod slot is nicely aligned 🙂 Now to trim and thin it down, a lot!!!! Attachment : FF385C3E-05CB-406E-ABDD-4BC4CB1B4327.jpeg ...

@mattbeels will take a few more, tend to get carried away with the practical but so pictures take a back seat!

Lookin great, more pics please @tej!

Routed the truss rod slot on the front headstock veneer and glued it on. It’s really thick and I want it at about half a mm so I’ll surface route it to thickness on the neck angle jig when it’s dry. G...

looking good