All the points to @Russ 🍻

This neck is now shiny shiny (shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather - points for spotting the lyrics) Attachment : 20230125_170516sml.jpg Attachment : 20230125_170506sml.jpg That's tota...

How long will you leave it, after planking it, to dry out? And hope the muscle recovers soon!!

That certainly looks like it should be solid enough @Robin. Lots of routering to hollow that out!

That's a good suggestion - thanks @koendb

After the various suggestions, I ended up using ... Attachment : 20230122_161956sml.jpg Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil. Mainly because I found an unopened little bottle on a shelf! I remember wonde...

When you make an acoustic, or hollowbody, the sides are really thin - maybe 2mm-3mm. I guess because you're bending veneers, the strength of the wood is still there because the fibres of the wood are...

Just don't get it in your hair - no telling how it would react with all those other products ... 🤣 I'd have thought so. I've done a couple of bodies now, and the original can is still >...

I was *very* young when those livestreams went out. I'm much more sensible now I've grown up. 😋

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Those factors don't just affect my brain 🤣

d’oh 🙃 Between Covid and the meds, my brain is slightly less functional than usual. And “usual” isn’t a high bar …

Hope you've got a guitar or two in there too? Anyways, not being a total wuss, and because the sun did indeed come out and shine brightly, I ventured to the depths of my workshop this morning and fo...

Finish one before you start another .... what sort of madness is this ??? 😆

There's a few aspects to consider - appearance, tone, balance (and probably more). With maple, ebony and the flamed redwood top, you've already got some very different looking timbers. I'd probably t...

I'd be a little wary of modifying that design too much if it will affect (reduce) the gluing area - particularly if you've got a longer neck which will add more force/stress to the joint too?

It's probably not just your age @jamesbisset I'd tell you which wax I used, except it's out in the workshop and I'm in the house. And the bit between the house and the workshop is very cold (or "a ...

For some reason, that sounds just a little, err, dodgy ..... 🤣 🤣 🤣

The latest batch of CDs received at TV towers included the Blondie Against All Odds set. Not the madly priced mega-collection, but the slightly less madly priced 3 disc collection (on special deal). ...