Thanks Matt, it is 40mm thick, I think that the area that maybe too thin is the neck pocket and how much glue contact area there is, but still toying ...

Sawing that fret board is something else, I would definitely arse that up! Well done.

A bit more finessing today. I adjusted the carve on the lower horn, made it deeper than I finished it yesterday. I think also for the real body I'm no...

Yes go for it @Robin, I watched Marks live stream carving again, its fairly straight forward and looks great. I will be back at it today!

Started the carve today.

That looks great Robin, I like the offset inlays, very nice. Do you know why the neck pocket is tighter, did you do anything different? Yep I just d...

Some progress today. Only balls up was routing the full depth of the pick up before the neck pocket, but luckily managed to rout the neck pocket to fu...

I think the blank will have to remain as a practice piece as it is bowed and there are a couple, admittedly small, splits in it. Still have to cut a...

Some actual progress today, albeit on the practice body. Routed out the pickups and the control cavity, it is still mighty cold for a prolonged sessio...

@boo, great answer. I like the fact that you are building this one first as a 'practice' and then lending it to the customer to try and then make adju...

Dave, if you haven’t already seen it, BigD guitars, on YouTube does this very thing when restoring an old Les Paul. Here’s the link.

Looks great, with a customer specified design I imagine that this in many respects makes the process easier in that the decisions are made but challen...

A couple more templates made, I think that's it now and the practice body marked out. I think I will make a proper start this coming week.

A bit cold in the garage today, but a couple of prep bits done. Made the humbucker template and the body shape template. Just waiting for a router b...

Should have added these two photos as well. PB

A practice with neck taper template and the excellent @bagpress fret slotting jig. Works a treat, accurate and simple to use. Regards Paul Borrett

That’s how I did mine, I made three in the end. It was just tricky at the outset getting the measurements spot on and aligning the straight edge to ro...

I have again revisited the course re the neck taper. My confusion comes from the fact that Mark says he measures the width of the last fret, 56mm, and...

@boo, looking into it further, 480mm works, well close, for a 24fret fretboard, but for 22 frets then the distance between the to width measurements d...

@robin, you can also line the neck pocket template with tape just to shrink a little and give a snug fit.