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Congrats on the 10 top Jackson you lucky man😁

Again great to see you doing your builds, your confidence has definitely grown, cheers!

Nice progress Jackson. Maybe for the inlay dots you make your initial hole to set the size and shape then set depth with a Dremel router and the original base. that is plenty small enough to see what you are doing and still control it? Second question... When staining are you not supposed to leave it rough so it soaks in THEN do the final smoothing and polish sanding? The reason I ask is I did the same on the "BRS" and the stains did not seem to penetrate as deep as I would have liked and required multiple coats to even out.

The guitar is coming along. A little at a time and before you know it it will be done and you will be playing it.

Looking really good, Jackson. I'm seriously loving the figure in that wood and how this is coming along!!!

How slack we weren’t subbed to you Looking good mate and seen the spoiler on Facebook 🤤

You star. Thanks so much for the shout out, and the support.

I just carved a LP style top, didn't have your patience to do it by hand with small planes, used 80 grit on random orbital sander. Great work mate! Cheers.

I looked at that top and got hungry. when you got to mini planning that top it looked like a perfectly marble steak from several angles until you got to sanding it. Glad to hear the band thing is going well. When we get a taste?

Yeah that highly figured maple is a pain to carve sense the grain goes every which way.

Looking good, brother, and congrats on your continued success!!!

I must be missing your new vids as I am watching re-runs, hahahaha

One day I will have a router sled as sexy as yours...

If you can't see it, it's not a problem... if its good enough for the CIA it's good enough for you bro... 😂

Good catch with the tuner positions brother!!!

Sorry I'm late... finally getting time to catch up on your build brother. And there is always time for a cookie!!!

aren't those sperzels reversible? I know that at least some of them are, iv'e used them for 4-2 headstocks

For the next build might I suggest the worlds first 5 string Banjitar? That way you can use that odd tuner and sleep well at night AND got credit for a new instrument! I'll second Todd on that awesome sled too.

Killer Sled brother. Nice job! ✌️&💙

Progress is coming along good mate, dont worry about all the little mishaps, thats just learning the hard way haha. If you run into issues with the post for the trem being in the wire cavity (any breakage etc) you can always drill out oversized and plug with a hardwood dowel. should be enough to help bulk it up.

Polo

Hope you did not remove too much so you still have the thickness you need for the pickup install.

SOOO much pre planning and mathing with multiple cavity builds. We ALWAYS end up with that "I cut it three times and I am STILL too short" moment. Glad you still have all your fingers n toes n dangly bits that were near the router when the incident happened.

Good work mate, getting there! Cheers

Glad you caught the thing about the off set in time. Hang in there just proceed slowly and make sure of measurements it will get done.

looking good man, wish my wife would give me high fives when I have wins in the shop!

You should really get the fit all Floyd Templates from Maximum Guitar works and take all that guess work out of scale placement. I have started moving my scale line back 1mm past it's actual point and setting the saddles in the middle of their travel at install. I think you ended up getting it so all is well! Nice guitar brother! ✌️&💙

I've never installed a trem but seems like if your saddles are all the way forward at your scale length, you should move the bridge forward so your saddles can move back and be at your scale length.

Lookin' good, brother! Hope the band is going well for you.

Awesome build brother and i actually dig your idea for dying the fretboard! That will look awesome. Great build man!✌️&💙

You should probably start using a triangle when marking scale length and pick up placement brother. That flexible ruler will come up a few mm short when flexing downwards. Shouldn't be an issue with the amount of travel on saddles but something to keep in mind when measuring stuffs.

Hey mate that is starting to come together, you should be able to blend that nech with the overhang, are you going to use a shim for neck angle or leave it flat? 🤘

A couple of things that might help with cutting the fret slots back out after sanding the radius. In stead of using the guide attached to the saw. You might just put a piece of tape along the blade to show the depth of cut. The second is to use a short radius block section with a 90 degree face to fret board cut and place the saw blade in the slot to be deepened then move the block parallel to the slot to help keep blade at a 90 degrees to the fret board. I have also seen people inset a couple of magnets in to the radius block to help insure the blade stays tight to the block.I know you used the slot cutting jig when you cut the slots but after sanding off so much of the fret board that some of the slot is gone it would help insure the slots where re-cut to the depth needed and stayed true.

that neck joint will look fine good solution, i was wondering how that was going to play out

Hi BU, how did you add handles to your sanding beam, do you find it any easier? Cheers

haha that neck makes your hands look normal size.

Cool stuff!! 😊😊

I dont often say this to guys... but thats some sexy wood you got there...

You gonna share the supplier?😁✌️&💙

SCORE!!!!

I have pretty wood that shows up every morning! 😆

Dang, I love the streaking in that mahogany!!!

Repairs on the fly, cool! How's it going with the new band??

Really enjoying this - thank you. Interesting choice to join the neck at the 17th fret instead of the usual 16th. Did I miss something? Cheers.

Great Jackson! Looking great brother. Don't you just love Schaller😁 Peace & Love

I'd add about 1/8 in. to outline of headstock to facilitate the additional string tuning knob. At least on the width, but wouldn't hurt on length too to space the tuning pegs a bit more. Are you binding the neck?

You wouldnt think that one extra tuner could cause that much change but everything else has to move that little bit to keep the scale and proportions balanced so they look and function well. Now about all them templates for the top set carve. it each of those a different tir for routing or just a guide to carve the top by so you stay even all the way around?

Now that Ben has apparently put guitar building on the back burner, you and Sweet T are my go to guys. Great work. Love your builds.

Nice work BU, I always find necks the most nerve racking, I just stuffed one up by faceting it too narrow grrr, ah well live and learn .......hopefully hahaha