Clamps removed - fretboard successfully glued - ran a straight edge along the fretboard and it is nice and straight.....

Just bought an old, but working, Axminster MSRS Drum Sander. Saw it on eBay - only 4 miles away - the plate on it says 1999. Will need to sort out a h...

Fretboard glued on - clamped until the morning. I glued the two halves of the Ovangkol cap together - I now have some sash clamps. When the glue had...

The body blanks from the Baileys Shop are 46mm.....

Think it is 45-46mm......

Shape of hole nearly right - what is the best way to cut it?

I have glued the two pieces of the cap together. What is the best way to cut the not f hole - it is a back to front Rickenbacker shape - a curved tri...

Thought I would start the body. First bit was to rout out the cavity - the mahogany blank is about 41mm thick so the cavity needs to be 29mm deep. I c...

Fillet glued and clamped. Planed - used nice new Luban block plane...

I’m trying not to miss taking pics of stages - I totally missed taking any pictures of the cavity routs on my Tele - I had glued the cap in place and ...

Rumbling on here in sunny (was today) Frocester - profiled the neck - was a bit of a coward at the nut end and stopped and started a bit short of the ...

Change that to I will have sash clamps by tomorrow - Rutland Tools sent me an email with details of their clamps and two minutes later a £20 off vouch...

I have a two piece Ovangkol cap bought ready to join - I don’t have sash clamps. How do I glue the two bits together?

The old iMac in the ‘workshop’ was scrapped from work because it couldn’t be updated to the current operating system - it is now running Neverware the...

Headstock thicknessed and tuner holes drilled - tested holes with tuners..... Extended/widened the channel for truss rod at nut end and tested that I ...

Mark - how would you open it up?

Started...... Baileys now supply a 6mm truss rod - it needs the slot making a bit wider at the nut end as the adjuster is slightly more than 6mm. Hea...

Does it work well without the infeed and outfeed tables? It is the bit of kit is top of my wish list - will see how the build with bits of wood preppe...

I see you got your sander thicknesser Mike!

I do need to keep a clear work space!