@frocesterbill - I look forward to seeing your build. Thank you, there's a couple of bits I'm not happy with but I think it look ok. I'm glueing the fretboard on later. I've been taking it a bit slow...

Yes - time is limited on the workshop course - we only have 5 days to build from scratch... one of the luxury's being a member here is that you can work at home and take your time - there is no rush.....

That's not bad - think on a workshop course you would have glued on the fretboard by the end of the first day? I'm hoping to start this weekend.....

Profiled the neck, the truss rod is in and glue drying on the wooden strip. 🙂 Attachment : Neck Profile.JPG

Looking good!

Cut the neck on the bandsaw and glued some ears on this evening. Attachment : 837F26EF-4695-4FC2-A206-84D5726533DF.jpeg

@frocesterbill Haha, yeah I have one now, and it came in really useful! ?

But I have already got a hole in my router base!

Keep going - I’m probably a week behind you.......

I made a slow start today (don't want to rush the job and make a mess). I routed the truss rod channel and surface routed the neck angle. 🙂 Attachment : TrussRodRout.JPG Attachment : Truss C...

Made the router baseplate, patted myself on the back then realised there's no hole for the router cutter! Doh! Easily fixed but still funny! 😀 Attachment : Router.JPG

Ordered the kit from this site. I have an exam tomorrow (digital forensics) and then I can start thinking about a plan for building. Can't say I'm going to miss working with MDF - horrible stuff!!!

Humbucker, body, control cavity, neck taper and headstock patterns. Attachment : Hum and Headstock Patterns.JPG Attachment : Control Cavity Pattern.JPG Attachment : Body Pattern.JPG ...

Quickly made a neck caul. I used cork for the strips, hopefully this should work nicely. Attachment : Neck Caul.JPG I'm going to make the patterns next: Body, headstock, humbucker cavity and co...

@jonathan-auckland Thanks for the advice. In the past I've made it up as I've went along so I'm hoping by planning things out and following the videos I will be a bit more successful. I don't mind mak...

Hi and welcome from the Shed in the rain. I found that the making of all the necessary bits stoped me from jumping in at the deep end with both feet. I finished my first acoustic build recently and co...

Made the headstock angle jig today. I figured that I am only using it to clamp the neck and route the headstock angle so I made it a little bit shorter. Attachment : Headstock Angle Jig.JPG Fre...

Yesterday I made the neck heel angle jig. Attachment : Heel Angle Jig.JPG I've never made one of these before and angling the heel of a guitar neck is one of the top mistakes I've made in the p...

I've had a go at making guitars in the past, but they generally turn out bad. In fact bad is giving them too much praise. I've made so many mistakes there isn't enough disk space on all the servers on...

@markbailey I am happy to post the entire 'blog' here and not to the wider Internet? I find that when I write stuff down it makes me do things better... weird but that's what I am like! 🙂