Round over front and back - neck angle set.

Truss rod end cover has just arrived - found a firm in the USA on eBay that will do custom lettering - ordered 20th Dec. Sent them a rough idea using Windows Paint and they produced this..... Works...

Body rout now done - two tiny tear outs - one on the cap alongside the switch hole - will be doing a round over so not a problem - the other is on the other side about 10mm down and a good sand will ...

Made the templates for the control cavity and have cut the hole in the back. I followed the revised order and cut out the body. Will do the rout another day as the workshop is chilly today.

Worked out where I went wrong - after I got the third facet nice and flat and the correct thicknesses I missed out evening up the facets before I added more facets....... Worked on it quite slowly wit...

Started the neck carve....... Scary...... First two facets Got the third facet sorted - thicknesses just about right then went on - the neck shape is a bit more D shaped then my two workshop builds -...

Removed the clamps from the glued up body - the sound hole (not f hole?) still needs tidying - the join in the cap looks ok, there is one tiny hole but it will be under the bridge.

I had glued the two bits of my cap together at the start of the week - went back to it yesterday lunchtime and it had a distinct curve on it - it was very damp yesterday - very stupidly I pressed down...

Clamps removed - fretboard successfully glued - ran a straight edge along the fretboard and it is nice and straight.....

Fretboard glued on - clamped until the morning. I glued the two halves of the Ovangkol cap together - I now have some sash clamps. When the glue had dried I sanded the back with 60 and front with 80...

Shape of hole nearly right - what is the best way to cut it?

Thought I would start the body. First bit was to rout out the cavity - the mahogany blank is about 41mm thick so the cavity needs to be 29mm deep. I created a pattern the edges are 15mm thick. Transfe...

Fillet glued and clamped. Planed - used nice new Luban block plane...

Hi Bill Many thanks for posting these pics. I do find it interesting to see other people's builds, and their very tidy workshops. So the more the merrier please. I was rather timorous and didn't uploa...

Rumbling on here in sunny (was today) Frocester - profiled the neck - was a bit of a coward at the nut end and stopped and started a bit short of the mark but otherwise OK. Will get in there with my...

The old iMac in the ‘workshop’ was scrapped from work because it couldn’t be updated to the current operating system - it is now running Neverware the Google OS so I can watch the Guitar Making videos...

Headstock thicknessed and tuner holes drilled - tested holes with tuners..... Extended/widened the channel for truss rod at nut end and tested that I can adjust truss rod with Allen key.

Started...... Baileys now supply a 6mm truss rod - it needs the slot making a bit wider at the nut end as the adjuster is slightly more than 6mm. Headstock angle cut and truss rod slot widened at end...

Making a start - routed a test slot for my truss rod into a bit of kitchen work top - only worried about the width at this point... Hope to get up courage and cut real truss rod slot later this week....

The workshop - a bit of my garage - going to get cold in the middle of winter but was a reasonable temp just now.