Hi @julioherrera Welcome to this awesome community. Ask anything you want, there will always be a few people to help, or at least, we try to 🙂

@dav The most important thing is to enjoy what you are doing 🙂 Good luck on your build. Be sure to share your progress here on the forum. We all lo...

The sanding sealer would help to prevent blotchy spots in the staining. It might be a good idea on the endgrain of a guitarbody and if applied correc...

I would definitely try to rescue the fretboard first and indeed fill it with glue and dust. Perhaps it is not a bad idea to figure out the correct pl...

So after 7 months, I finally found the time to finish this guitar...I removed all the hardware, sanded with 220 and 320, then applied Crimson High Bui...

Welcome to this wonderful community Emka!

Last week, I trimmed the edges of the top and back, with a chisel I am really pleased with how that end graft turned out. And this...

@chrishamilton welcome to this great community!

After some cleaning up on the heel and end blocks and adding an inwards curve ( approx 3 mm max depth ) towards the waist from the upper and lower bou...

The problem is not the images that disappear when you click on them , but the series like ‘click all traffic light tiles’ or similar ones for any type...

Some pictures of the creation process of the bridge. We start off by shaping the piece of pearwood to the profile of this little part of the plan. N...

@nsj awesome work !

Today I finished the little bridge, lots of knife carving 😊 The little flowers are 7x7mm , just to give an idea how small and finicky this bridge is...

this week I worked a bit on the back of the bridge (pear wood ) and also carved the top braces. Still need to round them a bit.

Last week, I worked on the rosette some more. I glued parchment on the back, using fish glue and cut out the details with a punch and a scalpel knife....

Last week I finished the carving of the rosette, well the major part of it. Next up is gluing parchment and cutting the refined details for the rosett...

Yes I am, wonderful stuff and 99% the reason why this system works so good, I think.

I have the Mirka roundy kit. It is still manual sanding, but you can hook it up to a vacuum cleaner and make your sanding work virtually dust free. ...

It should not chip if the blade is sharp enough, but yes, it is always possible and a good solution to mitigate the possibility of tear out 👍 So i...