I can say, with some confidence, that it would have been some amateur. 😆

Those “dots” look neat. Is that hollow rod with the middle filled in, or something else?

Sharpening and planing. Skills on my “to acquire someday” list.

I like that idea @nsj 👍 But I’m a binding virgin, and although the binding doesn't worry me particularly, managing to cut a neat channel - with the neck in place - is possibly not the best ...

I'm having second thoughts on the recap & carve it approach. Takes an hour or two to assemble a guitar, and maybe 10mins to strip it all back - and only that long because I desoldered everything...

(Allegedly), it's easier to play and bend single notes vs easier to play chords. But I can never remember which is supposedly easier to do on which sort of radius! Acoustics tend to be flatter, so I ...

Erm, not sure I'd even both trying that. You'd have to be so careful and consistent with the pressure against the up-and-downer, and the speed at which you pass the board past it. I'd expect the out...

I've never really understood why some guitarists are so insistent that they can "only" play a guitar with X, Y, or Z radius, or a scale length of this, that or the other, or only 21, 22 or 27.5 frets ...

I think you can get something called "veneer softener"? Might help?? (I'd not heard of it either)

You can do a lot better than that!! 😉 Ref variable 11;I’d be worried that the separate veneer leaves would firstly stick together as the pump is switched on, then relax (as you switched the pump off...

Mr @darrenking is still here occasionally ...

👍 I'd not noticed the tape.

Was the trial cap, or the veneers, moistened at all or perfectly dry? Just wondering whether a bit of moisture would make any difference?

Don't blame you @jamesbisset.

Nice mini router table. Not so sure that I like the proximity of fingers to cutter though 😲 😲

@nsj - I’ve got a couple of 1/4” and my big heavy Bosch Pro 1/2”. But as one of the 1/4”s is ~35 years old, it might be getting to retirement age! At full price, I’d not have bothered, but at half-p...

For anyone wanting a(nother) router, Rutlands have, today-only, got a 1/4” router on a deal at half price - £49.99 My trusty old 1/4” router dates from B&Q in the 1980s, so I’ve just splashed out.

🙁 @robin

Have you put the pick-up holes in the back???

”lost” @marcel??? That wasn’t the interpretation I’d made of your post! though that’s explain why you’re a virtual Marcel! Assuming it was a deliberate loss - congratulations!!