The first challenge was routing the groove. I used a Dremel with a 1mm router bit and a plunge base, but no template. Just following drawn lines. That...

@tv101 You are absolutely right. Here are a few pictures. The body is european ash and curly birch (very old, from my aunts farm). There is a weight r...

@clinton Great looking guitar. What did you use to get that shiny finish?

Yes, that is a concern. I'm not thinking full hollowbody, rather hollowing out the upper half (when held in playing position) and put some kind of nic...

@boo The fretboard is rosewood. I am planning to do a semi-hollowbody, loosely based on the Bandsman shape. The first build turned out very heavy, so ...

@boo Man, you made me go straight out to the workshop and thickness/plane a new fretboard blank! 👍

@boo Looking good! I think I will have to start a new build soon. Hard to resist when seeing other builds... 😀

@boo Beautiful guitar. And that is the right kind of case candy! 😀

Beautiful!

Thank you guys. I have played it for an hour or two and have some minor adjustments to do. It played well immediately without any other adjustment tha...

I will invent a few new mistakes, I suppose. 😀

Did it! There was some mistakes, some lessons learned, and a lot of fun. It sounds like a guitar and it look lika a guitar. Two more builds are...

Welcome! I'm relatively new to this forum too, but have already got great answers to my newbie questions (building my first guitar right now). Mar...

@robin Ouch! 😯

It's a learning process, I guess. In Sweden we have a saying: what you learn with the body, you learn for life 😀

Another tip is to avoid cutting the pad of your index finger with the chisel you just sharpened (while testing if it is sharp enough).

@powerful That is one good looking guitar!

Some progress. Had to work a lot to get the neck profile good enough. I opted for a D-shape and kind of got to that finally. Hopefully easier work on ...