It's worth a few minutes of your life just watching the video on that page, I had no idea it was such a manual process or that there were so many stag...

@Tej I must watch more videos than you do, it's a pretty common opinion. I've actually never heard a professional luthier say the glue was needed to h...

@rocknroller912 the glue in the fret slots isn't to hold the fret in (or at least it shouldn't be), it's to solidify and stiffen the fretboard.

@mattbeelsProbably the best explanation of various truss rod types I've come across, from a friend of the channel.

@mattbeels with the price of quality forstner bits I'm not sure that's a saving.I'm thinking of trying one of these for bulk removal.

@booIt's a boo guitar, I think you need to sneak a little shimmer in there!

Hmmm, now there's a thought.. some metal flake in the bottom of the hole, then gluboost tinted yellow.Bit expensive for a one off though.

@boo aren't they a bit subtle for you? they don't glitter!

@booMaybe the gentleman at Small Wonder Music that Mark talks about in the video could supply some in Honey Jasper? That looks pretty yellow on the we...

This stuff is also interesting, though they don't post prices.They produce fake rosewood etc by compressing other woods (such as maple). It seems they...

@russ I don't know about Ebano, but I have a Rocklite Sundari (fake rosewood) blank here and it has grain.If I didn't know it was engineered I'd assum...

@tej sounds to me like you let the metal get too hot.Unless you're grinding HSS tools you need to make sure things don't get hot, if it changes colour...

There's also a calculator on the stewmac site.Fanned frets are where things get fun, and rather harder to build a jig for. GMC have a number of fixed ...

@koendbI think the advent of affordable CNCs has widened the range of cutters available these days because having to pre-cut a blank and hog out mater...

Most of my tools are from Crimson, and they all seem excellent. Some they buy in (like the hosco nut files) others they make themselves.The company is...

@tv101, if you have a CNC machine, then fair enough.Crimson use theirs for their production line models, it's the one offs and student builds that use...

@boo You can get ones with holes in them which when they spin makes the disk almost transparent so you can see what you're doing.I haven't tried them ...

If you're using those dowel cutters, why not do the wider hole first? The "brad point" will leave an indentation at the bottom of the hole in the cent...

@tej That's very tidy. What was your methodology for placing the holes so evenly? I'm also looking at a Tele style build, and unfortunately top loadin...

@tv101Absolutely! There's red flake and blue flake and purple flake, all sorts of choices!