got the body finished now, I carved in another curve on the right side, also the replacement tuner has arrived, thanks to northwest guitars for a great customer service, I’d highly recommend them.

@boo @tv101 thankyou both!

the new tuner should be coming early next week, the company I bought the tuners from are sending me a spare one so that’s a good outcome.

I contacted sperzel so it looks like I might be able to get a single tuner either from them or a uk distributor, I simply couldn’t resist stringing the guitar up today with some spare strings, it makes a sound!…   Read more»

also don’t have access to tap and dye’s but know a metal working guru who might be able to help.

brian I would do that if I knew the exact size thread it is, I can’t find any info on thread type or pitch e.t.c even though there’s load of info on dimensions, I’m going to guess that’s imperial with…   Read more»

it’s sort of finished now apart from testing it with strings, I found out one of the tuner threads also doesn’t work which was annoying, now I need just a single tuner to replace it, annoying to find this out…   Read more»

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»