NDIYG day

[aaronyap]

another angle

[willow13]

Holy shit, you thicknessed that by hand?

I was about to say that .....I would have given up after 5 minutes

[alanp]

Cheap is one thing, but I would have said hell with it and spoken nicely to a man with a bandsaw or whatever the heck they use.

The payoff for all that work looks damn nice, though!

[Slowy]

You get the Doing it the Hard Way award. No contest!

Here's a tip for your plane: The lines are caused because the blade is straight. You need to regrind it so the edges are very slightly curved. It only needs to be enough to lift the edges away from the wood and it must be a smooth curve not a bevel.

[aaronyap]

Cheap is one thing, but I would have said hell with it and spoken nicely to a man with a bandsaw or whatever the heck they use.

The payoff for all that work looks damn nice, though!

thnx buddy, thats v kind words.

[aaronyap]

You get the Doing it the Hard Way award. No contest!

Here's a tip for your plane: The lines are caused because the blade is straight. You need to regrind it so the edges are very slightly curved. It only needs to be enough to lift the edges away from the wood and it must be a smooth curve not a bevel.

thnx for the tips man, my only woodwork experience is making a stool from hi school which my fat brother return it to non-assemble version when he tried to sit on it.

[aaronyap]

1mm binding channel + neck pocket.

[aaronyap]

after some fine tuning, test fit the neck into pocket channel. nice n tight.

[crowbgood1]

Truly hand crafted.

Half expecting some pics of you cutting the tree down with a broken hacksaw blade!

Nice work.

[aaronyap]

Truly hand crafted.

Half expecting some pics of you cutting the tree down with a broken hacksaw blade!

Nice work.

well wadya kno, i did cut down 3 x 4m trees in my yard with a hacksaw last year....

[aaronyap]

belly cut with rasp

[aaronyap]

20 mins later

[aaronyap]

sanding sanding sanding. keep the beer bottles, u never kno when u need it

[alanp]

Do guitar bodies sanded with Chimay or Lefte bottles sound better than bodies sanded with Tui bottles?

More seriously, how do the scallopy things in the side work out when playing it standing up in terms of arm motion?

[aaronyap]

Do guitar bodies sanded with Chimay or Lefte bottles sound better than bodies sanded with Tui bottles?

More seriously, how do the scallopy things in the side work out when playing it standing up in terms of arm motion?

the shape doesnt affect my arm motion actually, just that the lower "scallopy thing" can b a bit uncomfortable to dudes with bigger thigh since its not a smooth curve like les paul or strat.