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...

@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 🙂