
Last seen: Oct 12, 2026
Great start @tyreman. Keep those pictures coming. 🎶🙂🎸🙏
Then I bent the sides into shape using the pipe bender. I then held them in place in the guitar mould. 🙂🎶🙏🎸
Then plane the edges flat on the shooting board. 🎸🙏🎶🙂
Then cut into shape on the bandsaw. 🙂🎶🙏🎸
Onto the sides now. I used cherry for the sides on this one. Planed and scraped down to 2.0 - 2.1mm thick. 🎸🙏🎶🙂
Excellent repair job @koendb. Toolbox? 🤔.... there's an idea. 🙂🎶🙏🎸
I do like that fretboard @nsj. 🤌 🎸🙏🎶🙂
Cheers @koendb. How's your build coming on? 🙂🎶🙏🎸
@rey_rchotmail-com Welcome Rey. Enjoy the ride. Hope you don't get too much sawdust in your dinner. 😂 🙂🎶🎸🙏
Then I carved out each end of the centre strip to accommodate the heel block and end block. 🙏🎸🙂🎶
Time to carve the back braces into shape. 🎶🙂🎸🙏
Then glue in the four back braces. 🙏🎸🙂🎶
The next stage was to mark out each of the areas of the centre strip where each of the four back braces will pass through. Then carve them out 🎶...
Your putting us procrastinators to shame @nsj. 🤣😂 🎸🙏🎶🙂
@peter-c-f Keep us posted Peter. I'm keen to have a go at this. 🙂🙏🎶🎸
I'm the same @swepri. I just borrow other people's ideas. 🤣 🎸🎶🙏🙂
Cheers @swepri The shooting board has a series of holes at even intervals along the length of the board. I think mine were set at 8cm apart and abou...
......then glued it onto the inside of the back 🙏🎶🙂🎸
I used an off cut from the soundboard to make the centre strip for the back 🎸🙂🎶🙏
Then I cut out the shape of the back 🙏🎶🙂🎸