@rathius put the rotuer down and grab a shinto saw rasp lol I love hand carving the neck But, sometimes like with doing the truss rod cha...

Got the middle aged man belly carve done today, held the binding on to see how it'll look. Top carve will be down to the binding.

You usually need a wider bit for that end, or if you used a rounded router bit you need to square off the bottom of the channel for the blocks. Check ...

Got most of the routing done today, floyd lines up nice too. Still waiting on a cavity template set that should've been here last week before I do any...

Body wings glued on and cut out, I did forget to do the side dots first but I think I'll manage lol

@russ well it's ordered! Ooft lol

And today it neck carvy day. Just bought a laser engraver too so I can start adding a logo! Ooft lol

Got a bit more done today

@robin but it is straight lines and defined curves, then it's just glue all the bits in lol

@robin you can get retangles of abalone and stuff off ebay, that's what I did with a view to chopping them up to make an inlay. Mind you, i fan...

@russ my life is one big faff lol

@bpower Cheers. The secret is a dark ebony board, sawdust and superglue disappears!

@rathius I know it sucks but you're learning, I learnt mostly from making mistakes but now I feel so confident, know exaclty what I'm doing and don't ...

@rathius you have to dribble it into the slot before banging the fret in, you can use wood glue like titebond original too, cleans up with a damp clot...

@kalimar I like routing the trussrod channel while the blank is still squared, I use a fence on my router to follow the edge of the blank. Then...

Ok so I got new binding, going with an ivory as I think it'll look great with the black limba. I'll choose some other pickups. Did my first ever 12t...

New bindind arrived today, it's to white, so now I have two that don't match the pickups lol. Anyway ordered another, 3rd time lucky hopefully. ...

Turns out the binding is to yelllow when you get it in good light but I have more browny coloured cream binding on the way which should match the pick...

@rathius I use regular car matt 1k, so simple, dry sand very lightly after to remove any overspray or that but there's none of this wet sanding or pol...

@kalimar old maple and mahogany floor boards make nice necks, just trim off the nail holes. For the body any hardwood will do really, just need to be ...