@cheesewhisk That's awesome! The feeling of seeing your hard work pay off must be one of the greatest things and I can't wait to see mine sitting on a stand in all it's glory. Congratulations on (near...

A whole new fillet has been cut, fitted and glued!

Not much got done today but did I manage to do the rough cut of the neck shape and a fillet for the truss rod slot. That defect I mentioned before (which was the very tip of a shake and only few mm de...

Looks great! Headstock is awesome!

Hi Pete! Welcome to the forum.

@mattbeels I'm in New Baltimore. It's about 30 miles northeast of Detroit.

@robin I was planning on doing an oil finish.

Routing the headstock angle revealed a defect exactly at the edge of where the headtock will be. Maybe I can get some grain filler to fix it. Attachment : 20211003_182707.jpg

@cheesewhisk I've updated my original post at the top

@rocknroller912 Yes, I made a bigger base plate. I still have a quarter sheet of MDF so I definitely have enough to make an extra long railed jig. Besides, I might use it for sizing and smoothing mor...

@boo Cutting a recess in the plate was pretty much the first thing I thought. Although, I want to keep the size of it in case I need to use it for a bigger project. @robin Somehow that never occurred...

How crucial is it for the neck blank to be perfectly flat? Mine is a bit wavy. Placing a ruler on it in various spots I can see gaps here and there. Some spots where the ruler rocks a bit and the gap ...

Here's a short update on progress. More will be happening very shortly.

On Monday, I started working on leveling the neck blank but had to stop. Then yesterday I was busy all day. It started raining yesterday evening, rained all night and it's supposed to rain all day tod...

This is looking really good. I hope the lacquer turns out good for you. Looking forward to seeing this finished.

@robin Yikes! That must have been a lot of work to cut through. I'm envious of your 6" blank haha

Very nice. Looking forward to seeing your progress. I'm also planning on documenting my guitar building journey.

@poco7 That's awesome that you found someone not too far who could cut you a blank that's more than big enough. The one I ordered was advertised as 4X4 but it's actually 4-1/16 thick X 3-7/8 wide. Oh ...

@robin Yep, that's the plan. Yesterday I also corrected the guide fence on my band saw by shimming one edge of the locking bar with some masking tape. I'll do a test cut on some scrap to make sure it'...

Neck blank arrived today. Looks decent. Now I just need to rip it in half and I should be able to start working on it very soon. Attachment : 20210914_183152.jpg Also, I made the router base pl...