@nsj Yes I know you meant flattening, I just wanted to point out that you can also do the radius with a plane. I never get good results with sanding a...

Yup No 5 for a fretboard for me. Thickness it, Make it straight, cut the fretslots. Then, setup the hand plane for smoothing, and take a pass on both ...

ugh good luck finding that little block :-/ Maybe a good idea to see if you can find spare parts for this?

@jamesbisset awesome to see you are working on another guitar. Looking forward to see more 🙂

tv101 was asking the same thing a few days ago [ here ]. The consensus was 10 mm thickness

Haha , yeah maybe 🙂 though, I am willing to bet you will not like to do that commute every week :-DThe CMB is located in Puurs, roughly in the middl...

Yes it is @Robin! And once you start to get it right , you feel like the king of the world for the rest of the day.Together with that, I also develope...

Then we finetune the shape of the heel, by pressing the neck against the body, with a strip of sanding paper between, pulling the sandpaper back and f...

@tv101 Nice work! it looks great. 🤩 🙂 👍

Nice to see some new things going on !

I think, the thickness of the sides is probably more important during routing, due to the risk of tear out. Once you managed to route it , the thickne...

That looks beautiful, makes me wanna look to use it for a neck sometime too now. Thanks for the inspiration/tip 🙂

Your WHAT? 🤣 😜 😝 😋

I ll clean ‘em up but sharpen as I need them.. 🙂

I made a plane till for my iron planes., The wooden planes will be stored just above that on a still to make shelf.But as you can see, plenty of room ...

I don’t ! I bought a couple of planes, when I got an offer to buy a set of 24 old wooden planes, mainly moulding planes and rabbet planes for cabinet ...

Spalted wood is beautiful. This is one I am working on at the moment ( well just need to finish it really ) ( spalted Tamarind )

@nsj I had 2 planes (No4 and a 9 1/2 type of block plane ) for the last 2 years, now I suddenly have 38 😬 😎

Ah I dont hve the circular cutter yet, but the router parts are on order, I am making my own as designed by Paul Sellers 🙂 Speed is not always neede...