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You’re not wrong Andy, a preliminary scratch finding stain seams to be the norm for me, intentional or not because I’m shut at finding scratches. It’s all stained anyway, good weather over the last couple of days meant I could get the top sealed too as I’m using cellulose sealer. We are due cold spell now so hopefully after then I’ll be able to get some clearcoat over it

Is there a build thread for the red one? It's a bloody nice looking axe There seems to be a lot of deliveries getting through, my titebond arrived today, thank heavens.

I've been cracking on with this one. Got some stain on, well I got purple on it about 3 time sand kept finding scratches. I went over it with the orbital sander from 60 grit up to 220, found loads of scratches, repeated about 3 times. This bit of work just seams to be really awkward to sand, just couldn't see these prior to staining. More missed scratches so lots of hand sanding too. Then finally I decided I was happy. God another load of purple on, sanded it back (again) with 320 just to know it back for another colour, then added rose Once that was dry, I started working on the faux binding. Still a fair bit of tidying up to do there, the f-hole is particularly tricky to sand. The weather seams to be on my side, it was 15º this evening and 40º humidity so I might at least be able to get this done and get it sealed tomorrow. Then it's on with the bass.

As long as you get the right readings when you test the pots with a multimeter, they are probably fine. But you won't find the problem until you isolate the problem, so start really simple - bridge pickup to volume, to jack. If that works then add a switch into the equation, repeat adding stuff until you have figured it out.

Latest episode, a couple of sound issues on this one I'm afraid, it's all perfectly listenable but the voice recorder wasn't working the entire time

Yeah thanks man, I'm not feeling too bad. could be just coincidental head-cold symptoms. No fever or persistent cough, my mum is the same. Hoping we've dodged it but continuing to be a recluse to be on the safe side.

I disagree, I don't think a router is a particularly dangerous tool. My main router has a deadmans switch and it turns off as soon as you let go of it so it's really rather difficult to keep the thing switched on and put your other hand near the spinning bit. Tables on the other hand always have the bit spinning up, unguarded and needs to be manually switched off. I use my little trim router table for making control covers against templates but that is pretty much it, I'm terrified of them.

Routing is a lot safer hand held than it is on a table - Your arms take the shock of the kickback so it's a lot easier to manage. My little triton router has so much clear plastic covering that the top of the router is pretty much sealed, so there is nowhere for projectiles to go other than down towards the ground up the dust shoot. I'm not saying I would route through a nail hole, I wouldn't, but I avoid router tables as much as I possible can

you probably can't remember because there were so many grits 320 is plenty for lacquer

I'm not an expert I've only sprayed lacquer once from my hvlp gun, but I had a big old run down the front of the guitar between the pickups. Instead of sanding it all level again, I just kept on spraying until I was comfortable that there was plenty lacquer on the body. Then I level sanded and it was fine, that's the beauty of lacquer. I would say that you are totally sanding much too fine though, 2000 is giving very little for the lacquer to adhere to. I only sanded up to 320 but still got a glass like finish.

Glad that's improved it. One thing I found really helped my little triton thicknesser was buffing the bed with machine wax, it helps the wood glide through and thinner pieces are less likely to get stuck under the rollers.

Crikey this one is starting to look awesome. That top looks mean and I love how the binding jumps out of the wenge

Also I think it's worth saying if it hasn't been said already - Given the title of this thread, it's starting to look a lot like you know exactly what you're doing. Good job, looking forward to seeing it finished.

My dog goes nuts when I start filing down a bone nut, it's like he turns into a mad hunting beast. I can't stand the smell personally so I make sure the belt sander has a vac on it and I wear a mask if I'm hand filing it.

I was watching a demo of a local (to me) builder that had made a guitar with 2 humbuckers and a blend pot yesterday. It sounds great tbh so I wouldn't worry about both pickups remaining in the circuit at all times. I'm sure a 500k blend pot will work just fine. I'm using a 250k blend pot on the bass I'm working on, but that is because they're single coil pickups. But... in the unlikely even that it all goes horribly wrong, there is nothing stopping you reaming out the pot hole to make it big enough for a 3-way toggle.

Love the rosewood neck, they're great looking builds, especially for someone with minimal tools, though I think I can see more saws than they had a Waterloo

Nothing wrong with a bit of grain enhancement. I doubt there is a single photo on gibson/prs/fenders websites that hasn't been meddled with in photoshop. One thing I like about hosting my photos on photos.google.com is that I can do all that stuff even after I've embedded a photo on the forum, yet it stores all the edit history so a year later, I could come back and revert to the original file if needed. The wonders of modern technology

It's turning into another beauty, nice work as always.

David was talking about doing some filming when he comes to collect the guitar, so when he does a video on that, I will give it a mention My camera setup is just a gopro 4 and an iphone 8, sometimes 2 iPhones instead of the gopro if I can steel the Mrs phone. So you could do 2 cameras, even if your phone camera isn't up to much you could use it for extreme close up stuff so the details get picked up anyway. Only thing to note about a second camera is it is not x2 the editing, it's more like 3x or 4x the editing.

Thanks Biz, got a couple of editing tips from David and started doing it all in Adobe premier (instead of iMovie) which has a lot of extra gadgets like audio limiters and that's helped the sound a lot. I just had one annoying bit of routing that I missed which is a bit louder than the rest of it. But they're going in the right direction.

Filmed the latest instalment this weekend, routed an angled neck pocket and humbucker cavities with my usual what, why and how waffling

Really interesting stuff, I'd like to try it out. What platform is it designed for? I don't see any dmg or executable in the repo, installation docs would be useful for the less tech-savvy users.

Advertise it on Luthiers Club (fb), you never know - There are plenty of amateur builders buying necks and making bodies.

Real ebony is not a few % more, ebony is the most expensive wood there is

That sounds like a lot of work, but I've not heard of Jerry Rosa so I'll check him out. I left the phone on while I was doing a couple of jobs last night, so heres a quick vid on drilling for bridge studs