I have had some equipment troubles that have slowed the building down, went to buy a set of replacement tyres for the bandsaw, the shop said they would be in after a few weeks, turns out they only got 1 and I need 2, so I will probably just find some online now, should have done that first up....
Also bought an oscillating spindle sander, which looks pretty damn fine.
I also got in contact with the nice man (Tim) from Australian Tonewoods in WA that supplied the timber for my other build and after some to-and-fro via email, these turned up today:
2 sets of Tasmanian Blackwood body blanks, 1 streaky, 1 flamey.
2 Tas Blackwood necks
2 myrtle necks showing some nice flame. tasty.
4 Gidgee fretboards
I am still going to do a build using the salvaged timber, to try my hand at multiscale and also new techniques such as body binding in a now-mundane, fairweather blackmachine build, then use the stuff bought here to re-build it permanently, using the sassafras top in the earlier post. I also have a strandberg clone planned, but disappointingly they are currently out of stock of their hardware until perhaps December. I have been looking at other brand hardware, but pretty sure I want the Strandberg stuff.
That's all for now.