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Then you sir, are a seer or clairvoyant. I have only a vague idea of what my projects are going to look like, knowing is beyond me. Who wins the 3.30 at Kempston please?

Does that end into the pickup cavity or is it just perspective? What does it look like if you push it out of the headstock?

OK... So. Release the four fifths of the back leg and set them up in the workmate for finishing. I thought I'd taken more pictures, but you get the idea. Because I've changed my mind and I'm now fitting a leg vice, I had to buy some more timber. I got the cutting service in the shop to cut the board into 100mm widths. Glue up four fifths of the front leg. Spend an hour sharpening two chisels and a plane iron. Hopefully once I get good at it I'll just need a couple of strokes on the coarse and then fine grit. I don't sharpen enough because I'm rubbish at it, so I always need to do more when I do. Realise that I've made a mistake. Two of the front leg boards are supposed to have the mortice for the St. Peter's Cross to go into. Spend a few moments cursing and considering forcing them apart. Decide not too, it just makes the mortice slightly harder, for me, not a professional like the rest of you. Plane the back leg components with the freshly sharpened plane. They're about a mm under 70mm, close to square and parallel but I've only got a single bulb in the middle of the workshop, which must be the next thing on the list.

I'm assuming that you're doing the PVA ironing method of veneering? How will you stop the demarcation veneer glue from softening and moving when you put the top on?

Purchased a pair of Bart soapbars and a 5 string bridge from M. Fair price, fair packaging and great updates throughout.

It's about where I stand to practice, I'd notice even if she didn't. I might. It may help someone out there if I do.

I was thinking of spraying some glue in the air and hoping that enough air molecules stick together that they would form an amorphous cloud like shape I could use. I've not sorted a body yet, I've got to finish adding a woodworking vice to my bench first and then I can do something about the body. This isn't going to be threatening Owen for the longest build, but it won't be far off. I can include the bench build as well if you want

Brake cleaner works as well. We use it at work to clean PC processors and the heatsink.

Gratuitous mock up photo.

Woo hoo, another @Andyjr1515 build thread 🙂 I love this pandemic, you're all building stuff so there's lots to follow 😉

I like the dot design. And the colour, is it a satin finish? What's the headstock shape? You have noticed that the D string has fallen off?

It's not a plank until it's been driven round a corner between two lorries whilst the car it was on the roof of goes the other way.

Prise a marker dot out and pin through that? Silly idea, it'll be over the truss rod channel. 12th fret? It's got blocks. Abort!

A jig I suspect for that one.

I would have no qualms adjusting a truss rod channel from the top on a mill. From the back? Not a whelk's chance in a supernova.

Silly question, and probably covered by the above "last resort" option, but could the fingerboard be reattached sans truss rod and then go through the back of the neck to install a new one and fit a skunk stripe?

Hurr-hurr, Volute...

Si senōr

Why don't you bring the thing back in with you to save all this scurrying around to the shed and back?

Excuse my inability to draw...

Perpendicular to the strings, or along the same axis?

It's very shiny, have you polished the ebony? Is there space for the swifts...

Nice work, well done on taking the plunge. Nice looking jumper as well 🙂

Geez, will you change your profile picture already, I keep thinking Andy's posted an update

Ooo, I want to be one of those. Probably not this thread though.