@russ thanks buddy.   Currently trying to learn Satriani's surfing with the alien on it but it's awfy fast lol

@boo Cheers.I bought the paint as a kit, coarse silver, candy orange and 2k clear from kustom canz  

@rib-f there's no doubt you'll make some errors along the way but yeh, it's a learning process. These days mistakes don't phase me in the slightest, I...

@rib-f I angle the router and then lower it while moving, I find it pretty controllable. You can also use a forstner bit to hog some of the material o...

Have you started the build yet? When thicknessing a neck blank I always leave an extra 1mm, so if aiming for 21mm at the 1st I'll take it down to 2...

@brie I've got the wood but been sorting out car stuff and now got lurgy but I'll be back at it soon. Cheers

@liebe not so much sacrilegious as just plain weird! 🤣

@liebe spalted is good, un spalted can be quite heavy but good for a semi hollow like a thinline tele or that

@drewbag Living for the challenge! Lol

With osmo I finish the neck first then oil, that's what I did on the copper tele with oak board. Worked great.

@drewbag Not magnets but I generally do about 5 or 6mm with wood covers. I just screw them down though which helps if they curve a bit. You could try ...

Looks great! I'm currently having my first go a faux binding, pain in the rear lol   I like to wipe down with thinned down polyurethane first...

@brie Router sled and a laser, it was actually pretty easy. The lightburn software for the laser is brilliant too

@brie lasered them, had to drill where the resin is though because it's blue and my laser is a diode type, but I made templates when practicing with a...

Hey up, I'm north east and gather in my shed with tools and wood lol

Can't you turn it over, make that side the top then all that will get carved out anyway? If not binding is about 6mm and it looks like you shou...