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Thanks! Will need to get my ass in gear, because I am building two medium scale 5 strings, but haven't done anything on them for months already. Need to clean up the shed so I can start work on them again, might be good for the free time around the christmas holidays.

There's a holder for card scrapers by veritas: https://www.classichandtools.com/veritas-scraper-holder/p1385?srsltid=AfmBOooyJHFBhm6ew0X-G6AhsjCkmE3ePWinHbprqc9QGmznupHW88WI You might be able to duplicate this design, it'll basically hold the card in the slightly bent position so you do not have to do this with your thumbs. Stanley #80 is a great tool, often use it to quickly remove stickers and labels from lumber (although that does gunk up the mouth of the "plane"), would definitely recommend getting one, not just for your floor. I believe there's also a vintage Stanley with a handle, specifically for floors, would definitely never buy that, but the #80 has many uses. But in the Netherlands, and I think in Finland also, tools aren't as easy and cheap to find as in the UK and USA (I often buy on ebay.co.uk, but since brexit that has become quite expensive). Still though, I think I found my #80 for 25-30 euros in NL (person did not know what it was).

Soapy indeed Very nice! Those knobs are also very cool

Ouch, that sucks a lot. I would maybe look into hiring a belt sander for floors (and be very careful, those things are meant to be handled by pros, and they take off a lot of material, the challenge is to make it even across the whole floor). At least, look into either a scraper plane (like a Stanley #80) or a holder for your card scraper, so your thumbs don't suffer. But that is a job and a half I think (especially because you need to be on your knees).

Wowsers, that looks great! Love the understated colours, a very refined look.

I also used to do the graphic design before finishing the build, because once it works, I just want to stuff it in an enclosure and test it out. It'll never have graphics after that. Better to plan ahead. Really love Adobe Illustrator as well, it's pretty good, has it's niggles, UI didn't exactly get better with recent updates, but still.

Cringed a lot a the sight of the spade bit as well, but oh my god, it looks great. The knobs also, really clever fluting jig.

The different grain direction from the rest of the back draws the attention a bit too much for my taste, but still looks great. Also really like the wenge, keen on giving that a try as a top for a build I myself am working on.

Looks great, keen on hearing your experiences with those tuners. They are weird but cool, especially on the white backdrop.

Those will be lovely little frying pans for your dollhouse, sir!

Oh, I am definitely the weird one at home too! luckily, I now have a compadre in the form of my daughter.

That's really nice! Welcome!

Can recommend the shallow water clone, the clone of the rainbow machine, and arpanoid, all by pedal pcb. The latter two are weird and wonderful

Very cool, and those AionFx and PedalPCB kits really are a doddle to put together. Only had a bit of an issue with the Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water clone (forgot to solder a component leg, doh!)

Would seriously considering chambering it, those guitars are quite heavy, Alembic still builds guitars in that style, have you checked their site?