

Last seen: Dec 13, 2024
@tv101 You’ve just ruined the surprise. Thanks @boo, it's not like one those xmas cards that spreads glitter everywhere when you open the envelope...
@tv101 Or, about 100miles away on Scottish roads. Which is generally about 20miles as the crow flies on the West coast ... You're really not...
@boo Thanks for that, you're a star. @Rocknroller912 I took your advice and chiselled a bit out to make a straight line and glued a piece in. I...
Thanks @tv101, but boo got in before you.. I do have a little bag of rosewood magic dust, in my hut at the caravan though, a 7 hour round tr...
Thanks for the advice @Rocknroller912, I've plenty maple offcuts and it's not really in a conspicuous place so the bigger bit that I cut out will be m...
Thanks @boo , that should do the job. That'll be great if you could post that to me.
Hi @tv101, that's probably what ill do, but I haven't got any rosewood to make dust from. I'll fix the maple part today, the chip in the rosewood won'...
It's all been going very well on this build, not too many mishaps to report. However, I was doing a trial assembly of the humbuckers yesterday and was...
@luthierik Hi Erik, I'm happy to help. I've had lots of help and advice from this group, I'm glad to be able to give something back. That's a luck fi...
@jonhodgson I would say yes, your numbers tally with my method. I think Erik has to go in between there some to get something that he can use. I'm...
@luthierik Hi Erik, that is a beautiful body, we can't allow that to go to waste. I'm absolutely certain that you can make a neck to work here. As T...
@luthierik These are just the kind of puzzles that I like. My thoughts so far are to make a new neck of a scale length to fit your body. Then make a...
@clinton @mattbeels Very observant of you both 🙂
@luthierik Hello Erik, that is an interesting problem. I don't think it's possible for a 24.5" scale neck to intonate at anything other than 24.5". ...
@steveadams I've just watched part V. I'm well impressed with the way that you casually drilled the tuner holes with a handheld drill. When I trie...
@bonnywood Robin lives in Falkirk, must be very near to you geographically Welcome to the group. Geographically, I'm down the road a bit in Po...
My little rest piece polished up quite well so I've gone ahead and stained the body. There was a little flaw in the body that I had to fill and it did...
That looks fantastic @bpower, well done.
@darrenking , in my experience, small, stupid bugs are deeply attracted to the final, ‘most perfectly sprayed top coat ever’ Maybe a spray boo...
@russ but can I be a pain and ask if you know the difference between BSR and RAL Aerosols? BSR and RAL are just different standards or numberi...