Currently on the bench
I recently completed a black walnut, no-scratchplate Telecaster-style guitar, and I am in the early stages of work on a Thinline Tele built from mahogany and soft maple. For something different, and to keep my housemates happy, I also recently built a Noguchi coffee table.

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Slotting and radiusing a rosewood fretboard.

Cutting and planing some mahogany boards for two f

Routing headstock down to the correct thickness.

Shaping the blank into a neck: rough sawing, getti

Routing a channel for the truss rod, and test fitt

Laminating a maple veneer to the neck blank. I’d

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Starting work on a neck for the Thinline Telecaste

Wonderful surprise came in the post today from @wa

First steps towards a Stratocaster-style electric

Done

Fine sanding, testing tung oil on a walnut sample,

It’s getting there. Drilled holes for the alignm

Some more router work, this time with a round-over

Cleaning up the edge after rough sawing with a ban

Glueing up the boards and rough-sanding the joint

Making a router template.

A short new project (not a guitar). This will be a

Resawing a maple board to make a 1/4" cap for the

Routing the cavities and bringing them to the righ

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