That is a beautiful instrument - fantastic piece of work you’ve done! 
How does it play?
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That’s stunning, meticulous work. Lovely transition around the body/ neck.
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Has a touch of the meat man about it
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Glued a load of random scrap offcuts together to make a body, did the same for the neck. Becuase why not.
Jointing all that by hand was a bitch.
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The start of another beautiful instrument 
How’s the build going Graham? Keen to see how things have progressed.
Out of interest have you ever considered trying a headless model? I bought a Kiesel Custom Delos this week. Having never owned a headless guitar I’m really liking it so far and thought the style might be something that appeals to you. Having the tuners at the bridge end is surprisingly intuitive with the carved out contouring under the tuners being the main difference from a standard guitar body.
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Does it being headless help with balance? FoL1 plays bass, and has complained about some basses being headstock-heavy when you’re standing. I don’t play myself, but I can imagine the CofG would move quite a bit with that weight gone from the end of the neck
Very much depends on the specific guitar I would think. There are loads of headless basses available on the market so maybe worth them trying one.
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I’ll throw it into the conversation the next time we’re chatting
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No I haven’t, tbh they’re never really appealed to me. Your new one looks very nice.
The scrap wood guitar is 95% finished
Got a few small things to sort (string trees and a control cavity cover). It plays fine however and has a nice tone. Have installed a strat neck pickup.
I had to throw away the neck pictured above (buggered up shaping it) and start again. Im getting used to chucking necks not the big deal it once was.
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Love it. Another beauty.
I’ve not done much at all in terms of guitar building over the last couple of months. However I decided to revisit the neck carving jig I cobbeled together some months ago.
Did away with the roller bearings for the router sled (too much slop) and went with interference fit MDF guides and runners.
Made a concerted effort to calibrate it with fine adjustments to the profile cams to produce a consistant result as the neck is rotated.
It’ll carve a neck profile so the thickness at the 1st fret is 1mm less than the thickness at the 12 / 13th fret, which is pretty much perfect.
Used a scrap section of neck to experiment with
Result of clean up passes with the head and heal cams in their final shape.
(the clips are stops to prevent the router bit going too far)
The jig turns an afternoon’s work with rasps and files, into 5 mins with a router. Its consistant and predictable. (Unlike using hand tools which NEVER produce the same neck twice.)
This neck, made last weekend, is pretty much spot on after a few mins sanding to clean up a few routing marks
All thats left is hand shapingthe transition to the headstock and the heal.
Might make another guitar soon.
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Fuck me, this is some next-level stuff! 