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...

#no 🤣

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.

Removed them from the pallet and offered them up to the body blank for assessment, which one goes where.

Cleaned off with some spirit wipe and they look pretty nice.

Burn, cool and sand.