I do like the look of that @jmcmi93888. 👍 🎸🙏🎶🙂

@jmcmi93888 And now.The headstock logo. That's great work, I do like that. That's a skill that I'm going to have learn.

More photos for your amusement. Attachment : trussrod.jpg Carbon fibre truss rod. 8mm x 4mm. Dremmel routed a 3mm slot then widened it with sandpaper on a 2,5mm bit of ply. Attachment : fr...

Had a period of not much work (not Covid) but here are some more photos of the slow progress. Attachment : innercarve.jpg Attachment : outsidesdone.jpg Attachment : neck.jpg Thats...

@jmcmi93888 I would say it’s worked very well. I started like that with no fancy tools and violin callipers which are not long enough to reach the middle, so it was a guess on thickness.

Hi Rocknroller. Without all the right modern piller drills and cnc stuff I had to think of another way to "carve" the plates. The spikey ball technique worked exceptionally well on the "Thistle 2 arch...

@jmcmi93888 Remarkable progress considering what you started with. One quick method for hollowing is to drill holes inside with a depth stop on the drill, then rough out till the hole marks disappear....

@jmcmi93888 That looks really good! Keep going 🙂

Attachment : outsidesdone.jpg That is the outsides of the plates rough planed to the profile lines. quite happy with the results but can't finish the neck area of the top plate until I get the mor...

Attachment : profilecut1.jpg spent some time making the front and back profiles for key points (bridge, waist and longitudinal. Now for the fun bit. I'm carving the profiles into the wood using a ...

Looking good @jmcmi93888 🙏🎶🙂🎸

The carbon truss rod is purely a stiffener 4mm wide x 7mm deep as I am unsure of the potential for elm to flex even in a short length. I am thinking about 22mm thickness at the nut as well . Too much ...

@jmcmi93888 Nice work, is the truss rod in a neck that short simply a static bar or can you actually get an adjustable truss rod that size?

@jmcmi93888 looking good. Slow is good (fast too) 🙂

Attachment : plates.jpg Progress has been slow. I now have the back and front plates planed and bookmatched as best as I can given the fairly open grain. Attachment : neck.jpg Also the neck...

Attachment : sides1.jpg After a lot of cutting of more bits of the log to get the right grain direction, I cut 3 slices about 6mm thick x 70mm wide to be the sides. I then planed them down to abou...

Wow @jmcmi93888! That is definitely doing it the hard way, great job!

@jmcmi93888 Top marks for doing it the hard way. I did that years ago with setting and sharpening a hand saw converting it to rip. I only did it once, never again.

Attachment : elm.jpg The log. The design was based on lots of looking at you tubes and drawings and photos until I was confident (?) about scale lengths body sizes widths etc. having concluded tha...

Looking forward to seeing this one John. Same here ! 🙂