Recent content by casper100

It’s no different than end grain cutting boards, which are very stable. Wood glue creates a bond that is stronger than the surrounding wood.

I like it! What was your process? What guitar are you going to put it on?

https://www.wood-database.com/lati/#google_vignette Very dense. Very heavy. Easy to work with and a great yellow color. I have plans to try to make a chambered guitar body out of it, if I can get the weight down enough.

Speaking of Wenge…. I just finished an end grain cutting board that’s mostly Wenge and white Wenge (which isn’t related to Wenge at all, just has a similar grain). Also has maple, walnut, cherry, blood wood, tiger wood, Peruvian walnut and olive. Basically I took all the leftover bits from...

I work with Wenge all the time. It’s notorious for that look and feel. Worse than that it can give terrible, tiny splinters that hurt way out of proportion to their size. In fact, before sanding, I always use latex gloves with Wenge. But it’s a beautiful wood and I still use it a lot. I think...

Well, my latest guitar build is finally complete. It had lots of stops and starts, mostly related to the acoustic bridge. It would have been way easier to use a hard tail bridge, not just because I had to design and build it, but also because string height and intonation were a pain. In the end...

Beautiful builds. Truly excellent work. I started in 2025 as well and also plan to take the hobby into my retirement.

Beautiful

Gorgeous

Looking great. All of your choices look spot on. I can see you are good at planning and meticulous in the details. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

The smell is so awesome.

Back and sides are…… Angelus black leather dye. Sanded back till black is only in the grain. Angelus green. Rubio monocoat 2C Emerald (two coats) Rubio monocoat Sheen plus (one coat) Blacktail Studio N3 Nano ceramic (3 coats each of hard coat and top coat) So far the top is… Rubio monocoat 2C...

The bridge is finally on after much tweaking for saddle height and intonation adjustments. First few layers of finish on the top as well. Just really loving how the sides look with that green next to the top. It freaking glows.

Really good video

Killing two birds with one stone. Finishing the body at the same time as I finish an Aggie Charcuterie board I’m making as a present. Gig ‘em Aggies!