@darrenking Thanks I see now what I’ve been doing wrong and it should be turned like a hand scraper blade. It didn’t come with any instructions and ...

@darrenking Thanks for your comment. I’ve found the blade very difficult to sharpen even with a small roller jig and a diamond stone, so would be gr...

Planing fretboard the hard way but it’s good fun. It is of course my cheapest and nastiest bit of rosewood being a practice build. A very old piece fr...

With the curtains and multiple tv101 people I started to get a migraine so had to shut my eyes and listen to the music, which wasn’t bad at all.

This is my favourite at the moment. I remember seeing Rab Noakes at the Ayr Folk Club in about 1972 in the Station Hotel just across from Twa Dugs. le...

@tej I found these diamond stones in my local diy shop a few years ago. They are ok for the price and I use them for all my chisel and plane sharpen...

@tej I got an engineers flat surface from this firm. Not cheap but it has a test certificate accurate to 0.001mm. Solid polished granite and very he...

@koendb It was cheaper to buy in bulk than small quantities with postage and bulk discounts.

@boo I got some supplies when they were on offer. Wait till firms want to unload stuff. I think the rosewood was £6 each ten years ago and the Ebony...

@tej That might be a bit hard but I do have an ebony plank I got from David Dyke suppliers a while ago, not sure if ebony is good for laminating it ...

Now the big question - ebony or rosewood fretboard. Do you think I’ve got to many ?

@tej I didn’t think of checking the web it’s too much like being back at work

Questions for the experienced electric builders please on my practice run before going to the wood I got from Mark. Do I need to glue a fillet in to t...

I would be worried about glue squeeze out from the fretboard getting into the channel. Old style rods in an aluminium u shaped channel I would be happ...

I wonder if utube will block this one

@tej Thats what I did, a fill in strip to raise the depth where I was making it deeper for the adjusting nut. Necks are laminated anyway so it shoul...

@tej Dont worry, my test run on an old neck blank of not very good quality was so bad I’m not even going to share it. I went too deep in one spot al...

@markbailey Thanks for posting the link. You’ve certainly cleared a path through the mine field of sourcing supplies for all us amateurs. It makes l...

@tej Everybody has different methods. I don’t glue frets in unless it’s an acoustic re fret over the sound box where I can’t press or hammer, althou...