Neck looks beautiful BTW! 😲 👍 Thanks, appreciate the comment! I’ve got a droplet sat on it now, presuming as the grain is pretty tight it’ll take a fair while to absorb. Next job is t...

Neck looks beautiful BTW! 😲 👍

Fingers x'd 🤞 The dent will raise as the water dries - sometimes it takes a few goes... I'm sure whatever is left will easily sand out or come out when you round over the end.

@markbailey This is the dent (bottom left) I was talking about. I’ll opt for the drop off water first and see if that helps before trying anything more severe! Attachment : BE026BE3-48B5-4C35-B542...

…not abalone, mother of Pearl! Oh for an edit function that works!?!?!?! I’ve MOP for the side dots too but they’re very thin so need to make sure they’re only very marginally proud when glued in so I...

Coming along nicely @tej. 👍😁 🎶🎸🙏🙂

@koendb thank you 🙏

@Tej Looking good man!

Dots are in, 5mm abalone. I used a depth stop on the drill bit to keep everything consistent as opposed to eyeing it in which worked a treat. For the super glue I let a small drip run down a cocktail ...

Progress very much ground to a halt again after life got in the way! I’ve modified the neck workboard now so it has a 4 threaded inserts in that I can screw a support into. The support I made from an ...

I actually just finish a lot of my builds with only shellac. I really like how my (shellac) finishes look and , more important, feel.Now I am not doing a french polish or anything like that, I just pu...

Thanks for the ideas guys, as it happened I stumbled across a bottle of deep penetrating oil today which I’m going to test out over my dyed scrap. I think it’ll give a similar result to those posted. ...

Hi Tej, Autocorrection kicked in, it is Hardwax oil. A mixture of oil and wax, normally used on floors. After staining I used another oil to get the intense yellow off a bit and also enhance the grai...

@bart-van-der-kemp Thanks, the finish looks good, not familiar with “hardware oil” have you got a link to the product please? Also did the oil alter the colour from when you stained it at all?

Hi Tej, I have used Osmo Hardwax Polyx oil for my last build. I stained an alder body yellow and then put 5 thin layers hardware oil over it. After applying a thin layer I waited about 12 hours for th...

Attachment : A235DCFC-F998-4EB2-98BD-F264293163BD.jpeg Attachment : 37AD4CDB-FCBA-4AAB-8689-0D84E0E55C08.jpeg Neck nearly done now, angle of the heal is a little steeper than I’d like so mi...

@koendb Don’t have it to hand, off the top of my head it’s going to end up 23mm at the headstock end. There’s a sizeable step from where I didn’t lock the depth stop in which means there’s now only ab...

As I screwed up the initial root for the truss Rod I can’t actually make the neck as thin as I wanted as I’ll end up with a hole in the back of the neck! @Tej How deep is the trussrod channel and wha...

Getting there with the neck, heal needs a lot more work still but the rest is pretty much there. I got a real issue though with the thickness. As I screwed up the initial root for the truss Rod I can’...

Slow progress after more illness! At some point I’m not going to need a new tool to do the next step, the carving is going well but the rasp I have is way to big for the heel and volute(?) so waiting ...