
Last seen: Feb 26, 2026
Just pour it in will ya! OK 👍
Mixing some colours, blue and green. 💙🌎💚
Special masking tape to help contain the epoxy resin.
Time for some fun.
@russ Its a StewMac one I think and it’s one of my favourite files. This one I have is a small curved one, I’ll buy some others when money allows.
@dbell_1994 Yeah, so long as you have sanded it with fine enough paper, such as 2000g If you have clear lacquer sanded to 2000g or more, 3000, 4000...
@rocknroller912 With pallet boards, you have to keep them flat for as long as possible, even after gluing to the body blank, they can cup. I have lear...
A bit of carving today, belly carve and lower horn for top fret access.
@mattbeels Cheers Matt, I’m looking forward to seeing it in full flight.
@dbell_1994 That is called “blooming”. It’s when you spray too much lacquer on at once and moisture from the atmosphere gets trapped and appears milky...
Today I used my big belt sander to get the boards a bit more level after the gluing process. I then trimmed everything up to make a respectable guitar...
@rocknroller912 Oh yeah! That was the first Barncaster I made, I used a hockey stick neck from eBay. I think softwood is ok so long as the body is thi...
Not sure if the hash tag thing works, I’ll test it. #barncaster
@rocknroller912 if you look further to the bottom of this page, there are links to “Related Topics”, those are the other two Barncasters. This is the ...
@rocknroller912 Yeah, no probs. There are pictures on here of two other Barncasters I did last year too.
Thanks @russ I love making these Barncasters.
Couple more pics.
Drilled, glued and screwed. I used an old template to screw down to act as clamping action, some nice screws will be used in the finished product, jus...
A bit of light planing and they are ready to go.