Recent content by casper100

Did my first neck carving this weekend. Started with a gigantic round over bit on the routing table. That got me about 1/2 the way there and more importantly did a great job with the shoulders all the way to the fretboard. The rest I did with rasps, files, sanding. All in all, it took me about 4...

Australian Red Gum AggieCaster and Pale Moon Ebony LaoCaster

Sure. I didn’t see that icon. I will start doing that. Thanks.

Cool! Glad I’m not gonna be the only one.

I don’t know how high Warmoth sands its fretboards, but I went up to 800 grit and it looks and feels great. Installed the side dot markers this weekend and just eyeballing it without any template, it’s not the best. Any additional fretboards I do I might do something that incorporates side...

Ahhhhh…… Thanks.

Rubio has many colors

A natural, satin finish is easily accomplished with a hard wax oil, like Rubio Monocoat.

I have done some very small rounding of Warmoth fretboards with a sharp razor and then light sanding before doing the fretwork that I always do anyway. Just scrape the razor from one fret to the next at about 60 degrees several times then sand up to 800. Edit. I read your post wrong. I’ve never...

Body shape cut. 12 inch radius sanded into the fretboard. Nut slot cut for LSR roller nut. Headstock thinned and shaped into the fretboard. The least interesting part of the white Wenge body is the face grain, and the body needs to lose weight, so I am going to do something crazy. I’m gonna...

I did a table top in that dark roast. It’s beautiful. It was a much lighter wood though. Come to think of it, that dark roast would be a great color for an ash body

What stood out about it?

This is a Warmoth build site. And I will buy all the hardware I need from Warmoth. But I decided to go all out, put my woodworking skills to the test and build a body and neck myself. Roasted maple neck blank was from Stewmac, cut out with a Stewmac template. Ebony fingerboard from Exotic wood...

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?