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You're steaming ahead. If you haven't got a long jointer plane e.g no7 to square the top of the neck off with, you could always stick a roll of sandpaper stuck down on a flat surface (thick 18mm mdf would do) and rub the top face of the neck down on that.

well I have that covered now, I just got myself a voice recorder and @Urumiko sent me a spare lapel mic he had so next video should be better. Haha, if copyright wasn't an issue, I could have the theme to pretty women as an intro.

Ha well there is only so much I can do to improve my youtube face, I guess you could compare it to polishing a turd.

Last year I had to unset the neck on one of my builds - the red one I recently finished (in it's earliest form). I had used the same glue to join the two body blanks together as I used for the fretboard and neck pocket, so the amount of water and heat required to unset the neck was also enough to cause failure in the body joint - I countered it with clamps, but the joint definitely suffered. So my rationale is that joint's that you don't want to fail, should have a higher resistance than joints you do want to fail. Definitely not an expert opinion but something I have experienced.

I've used ply for templates before but not really got on with it, found it to splinter a fair bit, probably poor quality ply but the best my local timber yard or diy chain sells. It's the same with mdf, it's soft rubbish so without the glue layer, it will really only last a couple of builds. Interestingly, I got some MDF template from a chap called Bill Rae in the US (via luthiers club on facebook). The MDF he uses is hard, I've had a look on the internet but I've no idea what kind it is, certainly nothing that seems to be on sale in UK I say my music, it's my bands music. Frontman is also the bass player so vocals are very much a secondary thing. Both Ollie (Who I made the V for) and myself play through Krank 100w heads straight into Marshall 4x12s, with the occasional wah for leads. I think he did most of his recording with his gibbo black beauty, I recorded all mine on my PRS Mira Thanks for the feedback, I'll try and keep it as concise as poss in future, it's easy to waffle on and mumble. It's a strange experience essentially talking to yourself while working but having to do it in a way that the camera can hear you clearly. Anyway, I need to work on my presentation energy, maybe I need to do a line of orange Sherbet before pressing record.

Titebond 2 for the headstock cap then Titebond original for the fretboard and neck pocket. Titebond 3 would be better for the cap or glueing tops to bodies, but I have a bottle of 2 so using that until it's empty.

I remember someone asking about this on Amateur Luthier, I've never done it but I achieved a slimilar look on my first build by using neck wood offcuts as binding, if the joint under the binding is good then it will look like a recessed fretboard. probably quite difficult to route the perfect taper and recess.

You might be right there Andy, It's difficult talking to a camera whilst trying to do something, I was also worrying about whether or not what I was filing was going to be mirrored, in fact the whole filming lark is a lot more difficult than I thought! Fortunately I did route in the correct direction. Maybe I need an auto queue I guess it will all get better with practice. I'll mention some more on safe routing when I cut the necks out. Again thanks for the feedback, glad it was easier to watch this time - learning a few little tricks like fading audio in, normalising levels etc is helping.

Episode 3 done, didn't bother with camera 2 but @Urumiko's tip on audio normalisation has helped a lot, thanks bud

Only iMovie mate, I've got premier and avid from my design agency days but iMovie is just so much quicker for slapping some footage together, transitions and exporting. The music is my own, solely because I don't want to come up against any copyright issues or pay for it

version #3 gets my vote. Really nice design, the only thing that I would change if it was my design is the top horn, I would round it over a bit more to prevent it digging in to my chest whilst playing sat down. Edit, when I say #3, I mean the third one down, your number 2

hot dang, I love the rosewood fretboard + headstock look, good job on bending the veneer, the binding too, it all ties in really nicely. Is this one wired in the same way as blue?

thanks chaps, these are all valid points and I am acutely aware of them all as I was editing with headphones last night. It was recorded with iPhone 8 and a GoPro. I need to get myself a lapel mic recorder that will pick up my mumbling over the sound of pencil leds and twanging rulers. hopefully @Urumiko will chime in re mics as his videos have improved a lot recently. Learning to talk like a grown up will help me too. Also need to get myself a free standing tripod so the camera isn’t sat on the bench im working on. My only concern is I don’t want to do too much editing if I can, I’d rather keep it as “raw” as I can to keep the editing time down. Just cutting from one camera to another and is a fair bit of work - time I’d rather spend churning guitars out. I’m on the fence re music, granted it probably is a bit loud compared to the voice audio, but I remember several users kicking off at Ben Crowe on Patreon for there being nothing but the noise of power tools. I’m sure there is a sweet spot to be had. Again, really appreciate the feedback, it’s a learning process and opportunity for me to improve my presentation skill as much as anything. I don’t get much of that as a software engineer.

Episode 2 done, getting the hand of editing 2 cameras, though I need to work on my mumbling.

Thanks chaps, much appreciated

without running the risk of telling people how to build their guitars - Next time I carve Ziricote, I'll use an angle grinder because it's the wood equivalent of granite and merciless when carving against the grain

Looks awesome, reminds me of the single-cut parker fly. Are you carving the ziricote? I'm looking forward to watching someone else suffer with it

Nothing fancy, filming on a gopro and an iphone but will probably need to get myself a voice recorder. Episode one below.

Great work, that rosette looks awesome, like some sort of angry alien.

Yeah I bought old used gouges from ebay indevidually, they're anything from £20-£30 + postage. I have 5,6 and 7 sweep gouges 1/2" wide and 3/4" wide, you don't need anything bigger than that. As they go up in size, so does the price. You just got to keep an eye out for them, them come up often but bugger gouges are more rare than smaller ones. I got a set of cabinet/kidney scrapers from amazon for about £20 last year and I got the crimson mini scrapers which are excellent for the small horn areas

is this what you're looking for? https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seymourduncan.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2F1SCH_2S_5W_1V_1T.pdf Check out the Seymour duncan wiring configurator, it's a fantastic tool for wiring noobs (like me) https://www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-diagrams?meta_params=guitar-options,3-pickups,neck-s,middle-s,bridge-sch,1-volume,1-tone

Yeah I'm next to both too, usually what one doesn't have, the other does One thing I often do when cutting awkward shapes with my hand coping saw is to turn the blade 90º that way the handle can get round some of the hard to reach areas and is something you can't do with a scroll saw. I tried doing a bit of carving with a dremel the other day, I'm making another PRS style body and the upper horns are too small to get to with the angle grinder. The dremel was not for me, I found it too difficult to control such a small bit and found it difficult to get smooth even contours, so I went back to gouges and scrapers.

I agree, guitar is looking great @Norris but you must be the most patient man on the planet.

Now that I've just been looking, I'll probably get these next. https://www.screwfix.com/p/teng-tools-ttnf12-needle-file-set-12-pieces/3555x

I have these jewellers files: https://www.screwfix.com/p/magnusson-needle-file-set-5-3-pieces/4474v I used them to do the awkward areas in the f-hole. I also use them to shape my inlays and even did my first fret job with them - Not bad for £7! They're getting a bit tired now but I've had them or 18 months and got 8 builds out of them.