Truss rod end cover has just arrived - found a firm in the USA on eBay that will do custom lettering - ordered 20th Dec. Sent them a rough idea usin...

Perhaps I should have said “sanded nearly to fit.......” I need to even up the gaps - probably tidy the recess - any hits of a good way to do this? Al...

I routed the recess for the control plate cover - I was going to make a plastic cover but noticed that there was a piece of Ovangkol (albeit stuck to ...

Frets installed, super glued and trimmed - no photos yet because I have some glue to remove from the fretboard.........

Body rout now done - two tiny tear outs - one on the cap alongside the switch hole - will be doing a round over so not a problem - the other is on th...

Might put an A3 whiteboard and some dry wipe pens into the 'workshop' to put notes onto - better still if I can find one that also takes magnets.........

Now I have the bits trimmed from the body I can see what the oil finish will look like - only two coats so far and I only gave it a little bit of a sa...

Made the templates for the control cavity and have cut the hole in the back. I followed the revised order and cut out the body. Will do the rout an...

Body remarked - pickup routs done to 14mm - control holes drilled. Realised that I haven’t made a control cavity pattern yet.

The body blank and cap were 49mm thick - have used my drum sander - removed about 1mm from the cap and 3 from the mahogany - needed to smooth the back...

Just had an email from Axminster - they have recently introduced/re-introduced an upgraded version of my drum sander so can supply most of the spares ...

Looks lovely!

Cheers Darren - I am really enjoying the build. Working with the videos from Mark is great - think I in retrospect I would actually make notes from ...

Managed to do the preparing the fretboard and adding dots......

Worked out where I went wrong - after I got the third facet nice and flat and the correct thicknesses I missed out evening up the facets before I adde...

Started the neck carve....... Scary...... First two facets Got the third facet sorted - thicknesses just about right then went on - the neck shape is ...

Removed the clamps from the glued up body - the sound hole (not f hole?) still needs tidying - the join in the cap looks ok, there is one tiny hole bu...

I had glued the two bits of my cap together at the start of the week - went back to it yesterday lunchtime and it had a distinct curve on it - it was ...

I managed to lift the drum sander out of the car and have plonked it down in the area of the garage that houses my compressor and airbrush. Connected ...