

Last seen: Jun 4, 2025
Just waiting on strings now, hopefully turn up tomorrow
I've either clamped the body to my drill press table, did the 12mm hole then a bowl and dish to make a recess. The most recent I went straight in with...
I sanded the whole guitar back and applied more thinned down polyurethane, couple of coats. Now I'll wait a day or two and apply the microcrystaline w...
@boo my mate can play like that, he's really annoying lol
Well. I got my bridge holes all sorted, sanded the body to 320 and now put the first coat of finish on the top, amber tinted polyurethane thinned down...
Ooooh my first set neck is now glued and clamped! Better look up proper bridge position for a TOM next so I can get the post holes all drilled once th...
Right, fretwork and markers all sorted. Now it's close to gluing in the neck. First I'll clamp it and check I have the height for the bridge though, t...
@swepri it's a bit nervy but I just followed Marks vid and it came out great! Gave me a right buzz! I've got a stack of ebony boards, takes a right...
@robin definitely buddy, I don't freak out as much now, just think of a possible solution and get on with it
Well today was different, I was doing my recessed controls but tried to be a bit clever and paid the price lol The bit caught the wood and had a...
Ooh nice, when watching Mark doing the carve he only marked about a 1/4 inch, 6mm or so so don't need it to thick. I'd imagine walnut would be nice to...
@tv101 mate used to work for carpenter oak in Scotland doing that very job, he travelled all over.
Well today was carve day, oak is really really hard! Anyway I got there in the end and also did the access carve, did it on the bobbin sander an...
Well I used the superglue and masking tape method again, this time to hold the neck into the body while I routered the neck pickup cavity. Done the br...
@russ hehe I've seen Mark on about it in his lives and the look on hios face at the mention of superglue and masking tape! I might get some eve...
@timc Tbh I don't see why not, you're not needing to self tap, using it more like a bolt as it were. And yeh, comfort carve for sure. I do it to a...
Got sorting the neck more or less done today, fretboard radiused, neck carved including volute, headstock shaped and tuner holes drilled.
@timc You can buy different length screws, personally I use the 38mm ones with the ferrules. I get mine from axesrus in the UK but I think you should ...
Neck kinda thicknessed and gluing on wings for the headstock. Maybe tomorrow I'll get the neck carved
Got a good bit of the neck cut out, sorted the heel, done the neck pocket and planed the angle into the heel for the tom bridge. And got the ash...