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After the last effort at bending the sides I decided to go with either Black Wattle or Qld Maple for the sides. I had picked up some of each from another local who had a stash and went about cutting...

220 Celsius for sure. It was hot enough for water to vaporise on contact. Good idea on heating the outside first, I'll have to give that a go next time. This set is buggered. I'll have to see...

Thanks PLD, will be very nice if I ever get it finished!! This timber has such a deep lustre - the photos don't tend to show it all but it ranges from gold to red to chocolate. Even if it sounds...

Ok, so last night I got home from work and had a go at bending the sides. I let the iron go up to around 220 degrees, sprayed some water each side and proceeded to work on the curves. This stuff...

I actually wondered about routing the underside of the fretboard - Oh well, at least I can practice the binding and inlays on this one. The replacement neck is well underway and I think it's...

So, it's been a bit over 3 months since I was last in the workshop due to a very tight schedule with my work but I finally had the chance to do some work over the last 2 weekends!!. 1st job was to...

So, finally managed to get back to the workshop for an afternoon over the weekend... Had planned on a very busy afternoon with lots of progress shots. It didn't quite work out like that. 5 minutes...

OK, wow, that's a bit more technical than I was going to do.... point taken on the sassafras - I used what was available and the sass was light and stiff and quartersawn - next time I'll get some...

Thanks for the advice - really appreciate it. I think I might use a file or sanding block and tape the soundboard - the sassafras seems fairly brittle when a chisel goes near it and I'd hate to...

hey thanks for the feedback. I can't remember the exact measurements but pretty sure that I cut some sass down to 9mm x 12mm and used this. The book I'm using gave me the measurements, but having...

I found a few more pics on my phone... this one is the rosette channel before cleaning it up. will not be using a chisel for this next time 290459 as it's too easy to screw it up and I had a lot of...

Hi, looks like I had the same idea as you but I have no woodworking experience whatsoever. My build progress is in the next thread (mini Jumbo build) if you want to check it out. I'm using a book...

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I've already managed to meet at least one local member and caught up with Vern from TTIT at Emerald who gave me a tour of his workshop. I've started a threat over...

a couple more pics and this brings the progress up to date - this one started in July and so far I think we've only managed to coordinate 5 days in the workshop so progress is slow. Still hoping to...

Quiet day at work today so more pics and progress... Once the rosette was finished I used the bandsaw to roughout the shape and then used a table router with guide bit to trim it back to the...

Ok, when we initially decided to build this I had intended to use something like hoop pine, given it was an experiment of sorts. But after looking at the back and sides we were I wanted to do them...

yep, learnt the hard way on that one. managed to cut another off the same slab so still had a nice bookmatched back, and yes, this time used hand plane and drum sander. I've taken the back down to...

Rather than buying a back and side set we decided to use some timber that we had on hand and cut it to size ourselves. We found this piece under the workshop thinking it was beefwood, but after...

Hi there, I'm starting this threat to document my 1st guitar build - actually my first bit of woodworking since year 9 manual arts some 27 years ago. Should be interesting... The guitar will be a...

Hello from Rockhampton. I'm a finance broker who's last experience in woodworking was in year 9 manual arts, about 27 years ago, and I wasn't real good! So 6 months ago a good friend and I were...