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Looks and sounds great Jim

Love it Allen
Body shape and headstock definitely a McFarlen creation. Like the fretboard and markers as an extra twist.

I buy the little bottles when they appear in the "$2.00 shops". Last time I bought about 20 of them and keep it in my bar fridge, which is actually under the bench. Read a lot about correct bench heights and ergonomics ......... but I bow to the wisdom of Taffy. Next bench I build must be high enou...

Yep, pretty sure its some sort of finger joint - check out this pic

Never tried a repair on this type of thing, but it looks like a pretty clean separation of the finger joint from that picture. - More like the glue failed with minor breakage of the timber at the extremes of the "fingers"

Nice lines, great execution and gorgeous use of timbers Allan,
easily enough to convert me to the dark side of solid bodied electrics
Need a Like button for the forum

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Hi Shane, firstly I wish you all the best with future endeavours. Secondly - it's great to see some images of the starting point of the timber that goes on to make some great builds. The ultimate build thread will be to see where you take some of your "personal" stash with these as a reminder of whe...

Elegant design, gorgeous timbers and quietly proclaims the craftsmanship of the builder. Who needs bling ?
Pure class Allen. Thanks for sharing (think I'll go hide in the shed now and weep pathetically).

That is a really nice looking and lovely sounding guitar John. Even better, it's going to someone who can and will appreciate it and make it sing.
Well done sir.

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Kev

Think there needs to be different degrees of "doing a Woodrat". :wink: A true 'Master' Woodrat doesn't just repurpose furniture timber for GSO's - to start he boldly walks into antique establishments, buys said goods and promptly saws it up right there before the dealers eyes ! Cracked me up that ho...

Don't use this one Al,
But how about on of these

http://www.daycomsolutions.com/Support/ ... rsion.html

http://diaryofdennis.com/2012/07/11/tut ... irfanview/

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Same type of thing used in watercolour painting to mask off areas. (sometimes called friskit too). Basically a liquid latex rubber type stuff you paint on. It comes off of paper just by rubbing with your finger or using an eraser. Might work for this - but it's rather fluid when applied and may also...

The 3M "green" - new stuff - is advertised a specifically to stop this creep under the edge. Supposedly OK for up to 2 weeks. I've used it with success.
There's an orange version too for delicate surfaces that should be OK for a lot longer, but I havent tried that yet.

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Stunning Peter, a beautiful creation. Ditto on the comments for the headstock - much prefer yours.
Thanks for sharing.

Hi Trevor, dont have a real set up to test and play - but do have plenty of Mac's. Downloaded said program and had a go with built in speakers only. Seems to work just fine. You can set the start and finish frequencies and step interval you which to increase or decrease by. Click up or down and away...

This is turning into one heck of a great thread Bob - looks superb. I was just getting used to the size of this and then I saw the fretboard !

Hi Christian, Really enjoying watching this build come together. Like you work very much and have wondered how the heck you manage the clean look of the mitred edges. You'd need everything to come together spot on in terms of symmetry etc. Now having seen the build images to date - I'm still gobsmac...

Looks like a few $$ worth of aluminium there ! In actual use - do you make it all up according to the plan for braces, then try and get all of them in place in one go before clamping it down ? Or can you slot in a piece at a time? My first thought was you'd need to work pretty fast to get things lin...

Can you still get the Safe-T-Planer or similar ?

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Bruce McC wrote:Thank you Christian for sharing your build post.
Would be good to see how you do your mitred top/back/side joins.

+1
(if you don't mind giving away some of the secrets to the clean lines of your signature look )
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I dunno Allen - looks like some more of that water damaged stuff to me
Seriously though, crazy "curl" going on there - real 3D quality, leaps out of the screen without having to wear funny glasses - love it

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You could get by with a small dunny size room Kevin, but you've seen my dry room and for me it's just adequate. I'd really like to do the entire back bay of the shed. OK, looks like I'll need to build in stages - start with the dunny, then extend to a full bathroom and add the master bedroom later....

Hi Liam, So just a small bench/shelf and not much else? - or is it a bit of board balanced on the actually dunny :D You haven't been pissing in my dry room have you Kev? Oops - thought I'd left such stumbling around somewhat worse for the devils liquor back in my dim and distant past. Many apologies

Hi Liam,
So just a small bench/shelf and not much else? - or is it a bit of board balanced on the actually dunny

Thanks Alan & Nick. Nick, good to know a relatively small space is working out well for you - obviously a large area would be great, but I've got to build it and then keeping it humidity controlled will just get harder for me up here the bigger it gets. My thoughts were to have a space big enough fo...