I have a 12mm brad point drill. It was perfect in my test piece using my pillar drill, but too loose with my hand drill.

basically an 11mm hole is too small for the bridge inserts but 12mm is too big!! A 29/64" drill is very close to 11.5 mm

@94dodgedude I took off a little too much meat though, so I'll have to go back and deepen my truss rod channel We've all been there and there...

@peebee Robin, you are the master of doing a great job with the minimum of kit, hats off. If only I had a hat, it would be too cold to take it...

@peebee I then stuck to some 18mm mdf, bandsawed the outline and finished on the bobbin sander. Our local B&Q was out of 18mm mdf so iv'e ...

I had a big engineers vice on my garage workbench, it was far too high for planing wood and took up too much space. I bought a old used clamp on vice ...

An update on my waterslide transfers. I had applied over Danish Oil then sprayed a clearcoat of Plastikote gloss lacquer. I could see the different ...

That is amazing how he can be so precise with one hand. The way he used that spokeshave is brilliant. I think I'll manage to get by now without a band...

@94dodgedude Any thoughts on this or any better ideas of how to route out a truss rod channel on a neck that's already cut to shape? I made a...

@boo Sometimes when I’m feeling completely rebellious, I don’t even measure at all. Freestyle. Anarchist.

@azad there is not much available here, so I'm trying to build my own stuff. Hi Azad, welcome to the group. It's amazing what you can build fr...

@matt-beels I’ve been wanting to build electrics pretty badly for a few years Hi Matt, welcome to the group. If you need any advice on how to...

@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 That fan fretted nylon strung 8 string is just gorgeous! Made me dizzy looking at it.

@peebee That’s a lovely build, well done. I like the neck joint, very smooth Thanks Peebee, that shape was a bit accidental, I had to keep cut...

@94dodgedude Scared to router out the nice neck after the tear out now. It's coming on well. Take your time with the router, little cuts at ...

@boo can’t wait to see what you do with the kit. Thanks Boo, I'm keen to get started on the next one, but my fingers were f f freezing out in...

@russ Very Good for a Practice Build. Thanks Russ, I'll get started on proper one now, I've got a Bailey kit for the next one.

And now it's finished.

@clinton You work so hard to get this far and this happens. The things you do when your brain gets tired.