Whoa! A guitar fretboard that makes your fingers go septic! Awesome! Sounds like the kind of present that V. Putin might give to someone!

Keruing is a species of tropical type hard wood which is impervious to rot because of its oily content. It's used in outdoor applications where there are extremes of climate and rough wear eg the mili...

@tv1010101 Keruing is maybe just a general name for various species, I might as well give it try, somebody has to be the first. At the very least I can use this trail to make and delvelop the jigs ...

@darrenking Thanks for the advice Darren, I'll certainly check the grain. All I know so far is that it's 144x33.5x1880mm, so I should get something useful out of that.

@robin Check the direction of the grain as you want the neck to be a close to quarter cut as possible ie the running perpendicular to the fret board. If your plank has the grain running across the boa...

Posted by: @ @darrenking I think they sound good and perfectly serviceable. Everything is worth challenging and softwoods may not be quite as good as hardwoods, they are perfectly acceptable for the...

@tv1010101 I'll give it a go and time will tell. It'll be a couple of weeks before I can go to collect the mahogany, I should be ready to start the neck by that time.

A freind has offered me a piece of mahogany that has been laying in his farm workshop for 15 years. He reckons I could get four necks out of it. It's only 33mm thick, so probably a scarf joint for the...

@johnnierox-boo I’m curious as to how the softwood body affects the sound of the guitar. Traditional teaching would suggest that it may not be that great but who cares? What are they like in real life...

@robin Yes I’ve had that problem before, I bought a much bigger piece of Perspex to solve the problem. I look forward to seeing how this project of yours turns out, I love reusing/repurposing wood (or...

@johnnierox-boo Thanks John, my router was falling into the cavity doing the larger bit, I'll need to make a wider router base plate soon.

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I used a length of pine and some pallet boards to make a body blank. Attachment : 6D18931F-F9FB-4E75-B489-A40EB1C46A5B.jpeg Attachment : B90D112A-914C-49BF-B3AA-03DBBE3033E7.jpeg Atta...

@tv1010101 I missed that one. Did not wake up in time. Shucks. Just saw the stream. I think it’s time I own a multimeter.

You can get a pretty good one on Amazon for less than £20 and if you are getting involved with anything electrical it’ll change you life!

@darrenking Yes, wish I had a multimeter. My birthday coming up in a few weeks. Hmmm.

I guess anything with an applied surface colour or lacquer is going to benefit from being abraded where the grounding wire contacts. If you don't have on then cheap multimeter could be a great Christ...

I had an issue with EarthLink grounding to a black ABR 1 tune o matic bridge. It was not receiving proper grounding. Practically spent the whole day re assessing, re wiring and soldering, figuring out...

Me too! Good old Nobex!! I bought mine to make some picture frames for an artist in Dunfermline when I was in my late teens. It seemed like a lot of money at the time (£65 from memory - probably get o...