Chonker

Progress is really slowing, I'm getting more and more nervous as it gets more complete. I've glue the fretboard on (which went okay but did slip a little, will have to put the bridge slightly higher to compensate). I'm going to have to make the bridge again anyhow as the rosewood one is too thick (and I'm simply not able to thin that stuff, my plane just tears it out in chunks!). Will use a piece of brass to match the brass nut that still needs to be made.

Coming along great

I want a guitar made from the wood of christ's cross, like squisgar squigelf!

Oh man, that neck is something else

nope, photos are broken

Yea that does look quite similar. I might go around it with a small roundover bit to bevel the edge, that should get rid of it I guess.

Did some shaping of the body this morning While shaping the neck to body curves i took a chunk out of the back face at the edge It caused me to shape down the neck to body which I was toying with anyway but that's not gone deep enough and there's still a small ding in the edge. Any ideas how I can deal with this?

I think Basswood makes great guitars... but then I'm an RG fanboy

Yea the volute was okay until i took the neck thinner, now it looks a bit silly Will make it a bit smaller but will leave it on the large side still as I like the idea of having the extra thickness in that area.

I've not decided, I'm still yet to decide how to finish the guitar so I gues that'll probably influence my decision abit. Most likely I'll be boring and just go for white

Yea I went a bit further than intended really, once I thought I'd finishe with the spokeshave I noticed it was not straight, it was thinner in the middle and thicket at either end. By the time I got it down to a straight taper this is what I'm left with! It looks bad but bear in mind that it's quite long (29" scale at the bottom) and the body is still overly thick as I've not planed it yet) also my fingerboard is thick and the thickness of this and the fingerboard together is no less than my ibanez 7 string so hopefully that's cool. Only time will tell I guess.

The contrast of the woods is amazing, lovely work!

No progress shots for a little while as I have been mostly waiting for glue to dry! Finished carving the neck and glued the wings to the body. The body parts slipped a bit as I glued it so I now have lots of planing to do to get it flat. At least I have a little more thickness than I want int he final body to play with. The weight balance seems body heavy at this point which I guess is great. hopefully this wont changed too much with the routing of the cavities. I've also been following a tutorial on here for fibreoptic sidemarkers, quite pleased with the results, alot of hassle to do though.

ZR trem is by far my favourite, they are sooo smooth Also some good info on them here: http://www.jemsite.com/news/edge2003/index.htm

I really like the difference in wood colour, makes it look really interesting.