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Years ago I read an article about a piece of carbide going into someones neck.

And now sometimes if I have a free hand while using certain cutters  like a fly cutter I'll put one hand over my neck. 

My wife thinks that since I'm getting up there in age that I should get a Saw Stop.

I haven had a crazy shop accident in quite. a while and thought that "don't put your hand near the blade and you won't get cut".

I won't tell her what happened this morning. Not that a Saw Stop would help in a router accident.

I made two mistakes,

1.  I only put the router bit in about 1/2" into the collet.

2. I didn't pay enough attention to the hold down bolts on my jig.

Well, Bang, I hit the bolt with the router bit, the router bit pulled out of the router and hit me pretty hard below the belt.

Lucky it  was cold outside and I had enough layers on which saved me from getting cut.

Maybe you can make it look intentional. 

Change the shape of it or add more circles.

I tried several times to repair the veneer on a piano and it always looked like a repair.

So I cut it out a shape and fit in a decorate piece of veneer. 

55 minutes ago, ShatnersBassoon said:

Maybe you could save the body section?

I guess I'll save the body halves, since I put a bit of time in them.

Well I made a BooBoo and ruff-cut the back of the neck to thin.

I tried removing the finger board with a hot iron but failed.

So I have decided to throw in the towel on this one. 

This is my 1st. attempt using the Neck-Router with the new 5/8" rails.

the router cut as good as I hoped, pretty smooth.

It's set up to cut 1-11/16" to 2-1/4" 

Next attempt will be on one of the guitars I'm making.

https://youtu.be/C-hYp2sJDiw

That's pretty crazy!

My wife hates Barbie.

Looking Good.

Well I haven't tried it yet. I would have tried it outside but it's been so cold.

I've been working on a dust collection hood. I'm waiting for the surround  brush. 

Do you feel the new pickups sounded better?

So far on my last three guitars I am putting it the (Epiphone Classic Pro Alnico Classic) pickups $50 for the pair..

They are from China so they might be fakes. I can always change them later if I hate them.

That neck router jig looks pretty good.

I 'm attempting to make my jig so it can be used even if the body is on the guitar.

I dug through my junk and found some heavier rails and bearings.

I'm ready for the 1st. test on a piece of mahogany.

I don't want to spend to much time on dust collection until I know it will do the job.

OK, I hate rounding necks.

So after thinking about for a while I came up with this router jig.

Well it failed big time. The router is mounted on two 8mm rails which I had kicking around, which seamed OK.

Once I started cutting the router jumped all over the surface, under cutting and over cutting. ARRRRRRRRRR!

Well tonight I'm ordering some heaver rails and bearings, maybe 5/8" rails.

Well I almost cut to deep on the neck taper, and was thinking of trashing the whole project

The neck has ended up thiner by a 1/16" but I guess I can live with it.

I've been doing woodworking since I was 10.

Got married and have had a wood shop for the last 40 years.

Now the wife is saying she can't take the sawdust any more.

My shop is in the basement and I have dust collection but she says it's not good enough.  

It seems the dust doesn't bother me but she's not going to put up with it.

I'm enjoying making guitars so I've been routing and sanding out side but now the winter is coming.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! what's a boy to do? 

Looks good, I bought a 6" Delta last year but I haven't even plugged it in yet

That's a-lot of cutting, Looking Good!

Just glued on the fingerboard.

So far no Boo Boos.

That is some nice looking wood!

On it's way to being a guitar.

Gluing, gluing, gluing!

I found that making guitars is FUN.

I get most of my inspirations while falling asleep.

Last night I thought, Baltic Plywood so I cut all the wood and I'm ready to glue. 

Should be a fun project!

I always feel, design your own shape. 

Looking Good.