Welcome!

@jamesbisset The mould is mirrored?

@chrishamilton Welcome! The book Russ recommends is very good, covering most of the stuff needed to wire a guitar or troubleshoot it.

@tv101 Why do they only use four strings on their guitars? Are they confused bass players in diguise? Are they on a low budget? So many questions... ...

@tv101 Happy birthday!

@nsj Another great guitar! It's always a great feeling trying a new build out.

I prefer to drill out the bulk of material with a forstner bit before routing the cavities. With a decent drill press (with good clearance) and a dept...

@koendb Very impressive work. 👍 Looking forward to see the end result.

@nsj Great work and nice combination of woods.

@poco7 Congrats on getting a workshop. Certainly makes things more easy and fun. If your fretting hand is the problematic one, you can always play a...

@nsj It will be my first carve, so I hope it will be fairly easy. I'm going to do the neck first, while the walnut is acclimating in the garage. Wor...

Yes, that would be great!

I am the black sheep here, using the masking tape and superglue trick. Mostly because I have not managed to find any usable double sided tape here. 🙂 ...

@nsj Wow, that turned out very nice with the finish on.

@bpower That could be me...

Velcome to this friendly forum. I am sure you will get a lot of good advice.

@tv101 An absolute improvement over the old finish! I agree that the cavity cover should look better with same grain direction as the body. But is i...

@brie I accidently missed the neck angle on my first guitar and the solution was making a 2mm deep recess under the wraparound bridge. I made the rece...

@robin Just another thought... It could be worth checking the A string nut slot to make sure the string leaves crisp right at the end of the slot.