Christine

I love it! There's always something that bothers you, I'm no different and I'm sure @Andyjr1515 would agree with us too. A guitar isn't like a piece of furniture it's quite complex, precise angles and joins on curves and so on. It takes some work to make one by hand, any fool can turn one out with a CNC or pin router once they get a jig made. I just love hand made things, especially where the marks of the maker are visible somewhere, dovetails with a hint of the gauge marks left for example, you know you have something special when they are there.

That looks awesome You have to be a happy bunny?

Ash?

You want to bring some of that sun over my workshop? It's so ....... cold in there now, I can see my breath when I'm working, I think things might have to go on hold until spring. Shame as I have another build planned soon too, global warming my ......!!

Hiya We love France

I'm sure many will argue but the trick beyond a very basic technique is a good spraygun. Mine is a DeVilbiss SRI with a 1mm needle, it uses about 2 Bar of pressure and a very low air rate, it has a beautifully fine spray pattern no matter how wide or narrow your fan. It has a really nice airflow adjuster that can be used to balance out any adjustment in the needle. It was quite expensive at about £200 but can be used with a very basic compressor. The other problem is extraction for fumes especially with nitro, I no longer have a spray booth so outside is the best for me and then bring the bass inside quickly out of the way of dust and flies. This time of year it's too cold and damp so I'm spraying indoors and wearing a mask which keeps most of the fumes out but isn't ideal. Even with the cold I can still get four coats on in a day (between about 10am and 2pm) easily which is great Honestly a good spraygun is the answer, a good fine spray with no spits or splatters at any flowrate/pressure and it will give an even wet deposit with minimal usage, the overspray is negligable unless you are spraying edges. I think mine has paid for itself with just paint saved from overspray compared to a cheaper gun. Can you tell I'm a big fan of this gun? It is by far the best I've ever used, it's very hard to get it wrong after a little practice just to get a technique

What do you think of those Microplanes Andy? We have one in the kitchen but I've never used one on wood. Love that spokeshave too, Veritas? Better mention the bas too, well, it's typical of you, brilliant!!

Mahogany is a funny wood in that it is soft, alarmingly so but it has still got a good resistance to breaking under bending pressure, less than the Walnut and something like maple but it should be plenty strong. Gibson Thunderbird necks are scary thin but won't break unless they are heavily banged and that is usually due to the very short grain with no volute. I don't think I'd be losing any sleep over that, it should be plenty strong

Very cool, this will be something when it's done

I have a Precision neck on a Fenderbird I made some years ago, I try my best with that quite often but I can't get on with it. I'm not a good player though and my technique is bad at best so it's probably down to me; think I'll stick with super slim necks, I'm getting too old to change 😟

Oh dear, everyone's as corrupted as me! It's what they got called in my workshops Back on topic

Loving those Linda Lovelace clamps, I must get some oneday

That's is quite shocking 😮 Way to wide for me

Spraying again as planned, got the blackburst done but a minor change of plan on the Maple I wasn't too happy with the colour of the red over gold, it was just a little dull so I sprayed a thin coat of silver over the top so it was a gold/silver blend, the test piece looked good so I sprayed the transparent red over the top. I think they are all looking good, the two Ebony ones look as moody as hell and my red one looks very girly Excuse the poor pictures 😦

Surprisingly the nitro is drying quite well despite the cold and no sign of blooming, very handy as I'm getting more on than I hoped. Today I put on a couple of coats of clear gloss after cutting the sanding sealer back, then had a long walk on the beach before returning to put on the gold metalic, a day earlier than I imagined. I did the edges first after resetting the gun to output a very small amount in a narrow pattern. After they had dried I feathered in the faces spraying onto each corner at 45 degrees, it took two or three passes to get the right amount on. So tomorrow I can spray the black burst on the two Ebony dragons and the red on the Maple to finish the candy apple burst which I think/hope is looking promising

I sorted the jack points easily enough, the fitted nicely exactly where I would have wanted them, on the back edge right behind the control cavity so no harm done but bloody hell what an idiot Over the last couple of days I did some grain filling then today I sprayed sanding sealer. First coat well sanded back down to the wood, the second coat sanded flat, then finally a third cover coat just to be sure. There seems to be a couple of spots that look like they need a little more grain filling, I'll go out a little later on and have a look again and fill if need be so it will be ready to go again tomorrow. On that subject, I will be just spraying the bodies with a couple of coats of clear tomorrow in readiness to spray the gold for the burst on the Maple and the black for the burst on the Ebony on Sunday. Then hopefully I can spray the red over the maple body Monday before carrying on with the clear build up, woohoo!! Some pics of paint drying, thrilling stuff

No need to be rude!!

So you've met @owen Seriously Mr O is a very very nice guy and far from being rude and sarcastic, quite the opposite

I used an angle grinder and an Arbortech to rough carve the tops of my Les Pauls, scary stuff but most of the shaping was done in two minutes. There are some coarse abrasive discs that can remove wood quickly in a controlled way I think @Gilmourisgod mentioned them to me a few months ago

And there was me thinking that was clever design idea No I would never have guessed, I might even pinch that idea myself one day

Still trying to slowly catch up after our break, it looks great, well I csan't see any obvious filling from the photos and I'm pretty sure you wont either once the strings are on. The point I'm trying to make is it looks great and that blue block looks rather cool too

But not bland!! Look nice fretted

I like the Bubinga option, How about something like Zebrano for an option?

Pretty tuners, what are they?