Thank you all. Well chuffed. @russ, yes mate. It's a lefty. @bpower, yeah I like the back aswell. Still got some of that species of wood left. Thi...

Headstock veneer glued, just need to get a reamer for the tuner holes, after that it's onto leveling & radius the fretboard. It's incredibly cold ...

@tv101 That is utterly stunning

I think I have sorted the headstock now. Olive wood thicknessed to 2mm and I have also thicknessed a piece of walnut which matches the neck. With bo...

@robin , Thanks Robin, that's a no bad idea. I was thinking of altering the shape of the headstock slightly and I have scrap I can use to test that ou...

Thank you Russ, Robin & tv1, That's put my mind at ease. I've still to glue the fretboard anyway so will work on that and in the meantime I wil...

Finally got enough nerve to get my router out and do the mortise in the body. I can now follow the course as normal now. The picture is not the best...

@rocknroller912 & @Bpower Thank you both for such a quick reply to my topic. You are brilliant!!! I should have added this at first too. I had b...

@rocknroller912 Yeah possibly, when I got the slab of olive wood it looked great, left it for months before milling it down for bookmatching. Thats wh...

@rocknroller912 Thanks Mate, yeah I think that now too. I now know to never use olive wood again. Hidden cracks and defects that have taken hours to...

@markbailey Cheers Mark, aye the website is great. Thank you.