I find masks a real pita - usually make my glasses steam up - so I don't typically bother with them unless I'm doing something either *really* messy, ...

I read the opening line ... "started during lockdown and got carried away" .... saw the first guitar, and the second, scrolled down for the third, scr...

I think that was the right choice - make a new neck. The risk with levelling the old one and remaking it is that the - now thinner - neck could ...

This nifty little (large) surfacing bit has got me out of trouble numerous times. Ready for action Four passes later ... Surgery s...

This was the problem that I'd left myself. Not sure whether the main body was slightly uneven, or the rear cap was uneven, or I just didn't get en...

Had a hectic last couple of weeks, trying to get finished at work in time for a decent long break over Christmas and New Year. Today, is day #1 of h...

Naturally and predictably, things haven't quite gone to plan. The piece of Ash that I was used for the back didn't work out quite how I'd hoped....

Ahhh, that old first step on the slippery slope. Before you know it, your Dining Room table has been re-purposed as a workbench, there are bits of w...

@clinton - that looks BAD - you've done well to save it. That's what I like so much about guitar building - every build seems to throw up an une...

I've got one of those (1/2") surfacing bits too. Hugely useful piece of kit. Not the sort of thing that you need to use every day, but when you need...

Wow. That is a BIG router bit. I guess it’s handy for removing the bulk of the blank, so you can focus on the final shaping. But can you beat th...

I don't really follow individual guitarists that closely, so my preferences are more for how they work in the band (assuming that they're not solo art...

Looks like that worked really well @rathius. From what I can see on the pics, it looks like it left a nice smooth finish that'll tidy up quickly and ...

Does that mean it's OK? Ish?? 😉

Got two separate escapes to the workshop today - work is quietening down now, so I switched off at 1630 and went back to do some fun stuff. The rear...

WFH today, and my usual Monday lunchtime meeting was cancelled, so I got out to the workshop for 30mins. Which is all it took to clean up the sides ...

Thanks @jozefbehr I should get some time to finish off the body this week. Get the routers out to trim off the excess that the CNC couldn't reach, ...

If I can cut something to within 1mm, then I'm happy! Trying to cut either the inlay - or the channel into which it was inlaid - by hand ... well, I ...

Like this ... That "inlay" was about 1.5mm wide, cut out of 2mm thick ply, fitted into a slot cut into some MDF - just as a trial piece. That'...

Cheers @Russ Conceptually, it's simple. It's just a router with a controller and 3 motors to move the router to the right place in the 3 dimensions...