Next was routing the neck pocket using a template and checking the fit of the neck. During the final sanding of the neck a line began to appear and wi...

Now some carving... first the body contours, then the neck. The fingerboard was give a radius of 12" and sanded to 320g. The frets and side-dots inst...

I routed the truss-rod slot after practising on a scrap of wood - I got it slightly off the centre line unfortunately. This contributed to a problem l...

The surfaces of the mahogany clanks to be joined were prepared and glued, templates made, the body marked out and the hole for the volume control dril...

Oh, the pots are push/pull... one splits the coils, the other completely switches out the tone circuit. I NEVER use tone controls. It's surprising the...

Here's Mark putting her through her paces at the end of the final day. Despite the gorgeous performance Carol's comment at the end cracks me up!

This is looking twangtastic - love the woods. Wow you're a tidy worker. Looking forward to watching your progress...

Nice build John! Look at the grain on that, I assume, mahogany! Nice headstock design too... so hard to come up with something special! And... brave t...

Yes, I guess they are left handed tuners... hadn't really thought about it for over a decade... You're spot on with the woods John

If I'm honest it's heavily influence by Albert Lee's guitar... Thanks for your comments John... just getting the hang of this but now "attach files" a...

This is how it turned out...

Here are some pictures of the construction in no particular order...