I’m in C’s good books this week, so it can’t be me. ?

Great stuff - post plenty of progress pics. Apart from the fact that I love watching builds come together (and generally learn some useful tips to...

I love the idea of “here’s a bit of wood I found lying around, I’m going to make a guitar out of it”. Brilliant. I believe Leo Fender started out in...

My vote went to LIVESTREAMS. There are already a multitude of YT channels out there for just about every possible topic. TBH, I rarely watch th...

Firstly, frets can be a very personal thing. Some people like wide & tall, some prefer thin & low, most people are probably somewhere in the ...

And if you wouldn't mine sharing instructions and pics here when you've done it ... that'd be great! 😉

That jig looks really neat. I admit that I bought mine (Stewmac, though when the $/£ rate was much better!). Do the bearings function as a depth s...

And this is how it looks today ... Of course, you can see the outline of the plug close-up, but the pickup and bridge do a pretty good jo...

(Photo uploads are now erroring, so linking instead) The next bit took a bit of precision cutting and sanding, and then the assistance of Mr Mallet....

Ahhh, look, *that's* where the pickup cavity was, originally. And, that's also where it really ought to be. And now, one nice clean - if ra...

It was about a year later before I decided to try to fix the result of my inability to do basic maths. (Despite what my A-level certificates might sa...

Right then @markbailey @Russ, your breaths can now be unbaited ... Feeling rather chuffed with myself (did I mention that already) for rescuing this...

Here you can see the carve blends in the extra thickness. I was feeling quite chuffed with myself at this point. This point was just before the ne...

Next stage, glue the cap to the body, and then start carving the cap ... You can see the difference in thickness in the pic above. The outer led...

... back out with the thicknessing jig, and a nice thick piece of birds eye maple. This is going to be thicknessed into a wedge shape ... .....

That's about 6mm-8mm taken off the top, and a nice sharp edge created. Guess what happens next ...

Because the strings were going to be so high at the bridge point, the obvious first step in the fix was to make the body thinner, and therefore to mak...

Step1. Sort out the weight issue. Nothing too cunning about that. But a good place to start. Cunningness comes later. 😉  20150...

I thought up a cunning plan. @markbailey will be along shortly to explain a much simpler way of fixing this issue, and then I'll kick myself. It a...