Well it's taken a while but the finish is done at least. I'll get it all assembled in the next day or two. Thanks to this forum I found an old post ab...

Frets are in and side dots done, next up will be sorting the headstock and carving the neck.

@liebe I got one of those hosco fret slot cleaning saws, seems to work ok

@wolframmalukker sounds like you need to clear some space, I'd try and just focus on one, get it over the finish line then the next and so on. I find ...

While the finishing of the bass takes ages due to the weather I decided to get on with the tele build. I've roughed out the neck and today was radiusi...

Looking good Brian! But my advice, don't rush the finish or it'll take longer lol

Looks good @Boo!

@nortski I think it's just the way he builds guitars, there's also a lot of info to try and make into a course so bound to be the odd thing here and t...

Started the finishing

@nortski I think there's a bit of confusion here, basically if you look at say a les paul or prs they have the nut at the end of the fretboard. I thin...

Got the comfort carves done today. I had a go with the grinder and sanding disc on the arm carve but gave that up and went back to good old hand tools...

@steveh well I can blame it on age at least lol

@steveh I place the claw against the back of the spring cavity and move it about until I'm happy it's centred then go round in the holes with a pencil...

Today was a little tidy here and there and then onto bridge fitting, pickup routing, control cavity and wire holes. I set the depth stop on my drill p...

Today I smoothed out the back and front and did the neck heel transition area.

You say studio apartment, I say shed, you live in a shed lol

Got the top glued on then today I rough cut out the shape, still a bit of refining to do though then it's onto routing and carving

@nortski I've used wood glue in the past, just squeeze a small bead in the slot then bang in the fret but my preferred method is to run medium supergl...

Got the frets levelled, crowned and polished today then glued on the wings. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the top glued on at some point. This was one ...

@brie St Cyrus! That was it. Gourdon is past johnshaven. I was trying to remember them in order going from Montrose lol. Bought my first electric from...