I carved the comfort carve and glued the fretboard on, using mark’s clamping caul, it’s just a piece of 4 x 2 with hardboard strips on the edges, hopefully you can see how nice the curves look, I might carve…   Read more»

here’s another update: – routed the pickup cavities -routed the back panel slot the top is very slightly off from the centreline not by much but enough to annoy me so for the real one I’ll use screws to line…   Read more»

@nsj I’ve been thinking of buying a kit from him for a couple of years now, seems really good for the money.

 the top is glued on now, I made the f hole thinner so that it looks better from the front, and coloured in…[Read more]

I’ve been busy! carved the f-hole and the shape on the top, drilled all the holes needed, including the ones inside, still a few jobs to do but it’s getting close.

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hollowed it out, on the real one I’ll do this first before gluing on the wings, it’d be much easier, it’s now a lot lighter weight and sounds pretty good when you tap it.

I made some templates/patterns today, for hollowing out the wings.

perhaps you can help me decide? should I make a normal control cavity then rout out the top half of the left body wing, or should I hollow out the entire thing? I still want an access plate on the…   Read more»

the wings are glued on now, in the meantime I’m going to make some routing templates out of MDF whilst this is curing

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