@simecircle Welcome. Lots of experience and good advice on this forum.

Thank you very much!

@simecircle Welcome Simon. There are no stupid questions here so ask away. Enjoy the ride 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Welcome to the forum Simon, we're all friendly here and as long are your stupid questions are related to guitar building then fire away.

Hi there I've made a couple of guitars and was looking for a friendly place to ask stupid questions. Would this fit the bill? Some of the forums seem to be for people following the courses only, so ...

@usadave Nice work Dave. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

Nice One!

@usadave Great looking guitar. Well done!

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to post my second guitar. Finished it up and gave it to a friend. Could not have done it without Mark's courses and the advice from the community. On to #3... (Hopefully I'l...

Good morning, I'm a bit late to the party but yes, there should be an offset for the nut position slot. I allow for this on the templates that I make for the slotting jig available in Mark and Carol's...

@swepri yeah, or half a saw width? Which I understand to be 0.29mm, but I think you are probably right in that the difference is not big enough to change intonation.

@simecircle Check your jig using a fret space calculator. Maybe some templates are already compensated and others are not? On the other hand, the difference is only half a tang width, so maybe it does...

@swepri yes, that's exactly what I am thinking - especially if you compare to a zero fret! I don't think my jig does this and I notice that difference on yours is quite pronounced? Anyway, thank you s...

@nsj thank you kindly for the response - my jig does not appear to be offset to be honest.

@simecircle Yes there should be a tiny offset, at least compared to using a zero fret. I have a template from Rall, and there is markings for Saddle/Zero fret. The slot for this is a tiny bit wider an...

Well you're cutting the standard fret slot where the nut goes anyway, the jig usually has it as one of the notches to line up so in theory that already happens. Certainly never had a problem yet mysel...

So after introducing myself to a very friendly welcome I thought I would try and ask a question. I can’t work out whether this is the correct forum, but here goes… I have one of those fret jigs for ...

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Attachment : PXL_20230203_151257063.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230202_141558050.jpg Then made the bridge plate using "harvested" wood from the back. 🙂🎸🎶🙏