@russ Moving along quite nicely. Keep at it. Top job!

@tv101 I built one in my life. An archtop. Took me almost a year. I totally concur with you.

@marcel Yes!!!! LaBella flat wounds on a short scale. Short scales feels so comfy and I love building them.

@bpower top job!

@russ looking real nice!!!

Pickguards

@robin Yes, I couldnt do it but I tend to wear gloves rasping the neck and half way through I seem to take it off again and deal with the blisters on ...

Nice One!

Rough Neck

Bodybuiding

@nsj gorgeous!

Dots

@russ top job!

Are the gouges deep? Be mindful that when you carve the neck that it does not poke through. You pretty much have 1/8-3/16 of an inch thickness left af...

Back at it

You are good on track

That’s great. Yes start with a TOM. Get that under your belt first.

Nominal routing depth for neck pockets for fender style bridges with 21-22mm thick neck blanks, 5-6mm fretboards. Start off at 16mm neck pocket route ...

Here is a tip. When in doubt we are here for you. Correction In the video I said 22mm thickness on my neck blank but it is actually 24.5mm.