I'm back in the workshop at long last, it's been nearly 8 weeks since I made anything. I'm not back to full health yet, but can't sit around any more. The hospital are waiting to see the medication will solve the problem, but it will be 12 to 16 weeks. if it hasn't gone away by then it will be on the operating table for me (the joys of getting old).
This week I've managed to do 3 to 4 hours a day, I think that will be my limit for some time to come. So I decided to finish off a few jobs I started last November. These were nearly all finished anyway, so didn't take a lot time to complete them, see photos below.


This is a Les Paul Junior DC with a solid rosewood neck.

A thin line 52 P Bass fully chambered with a F hole, the body only weighs a fraction over 3 lb.

Very standard Swamp Ash telecaster with a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard.

A solid rosewood neck for a Strat belonging to
@poopot .
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I can say, from experience, that hospital ops are no fun.
I hate sitting around too, that drives me nuts
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Good on you for getting back too it,,
LOVE that rosewood neck..
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Second week back in the workshop, most of the time was spent preparing and gluing up wood for the next lot of builds plus finishing off a P bass I started some time ago.
Much to my better judgement I've agreed to make a Les Paul custom, I will make two of them in case I cock one up. I only decided to do these because @WezV told us where to get the multicoloured binding, so if it all goes pear-shaped I know to blame. The photos show how I've chambered the bodies and glued on the caps, the caps are plain maple as the guitars are going to be black. I also started a third Les Paul that is going to be much thinner than normal as it's going to have a tremolo, it’s only going to be 45mm thick in total, so I decided not to chamber it.
Also restarted work on the three mahogany Jazzmaster's. I did start these at the end of November but didn't get very far. I'm also going to complete a fourth Jazzmaster that will have a roasted flame maple neck.
3 Mahogany bodies, plus one Alder. 1 roasted flame maple neck, 3 Mahogany necks with very dark Rosewood fingerboards.
Managed to track down really nice, very dark Rosewood fingerboard, they were a bit pricey, but they are so nice and so dark I just had to buy them.
i did full depth channels on mine, but I reckon if i was doing it again I would rip the 6mm multilam binding in half and do a stepped channel
I bent the top strips today and will hopefully get them glued in place tomorrow.
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Is it too much to hope the LP build we'd talked about could be the second LPC please - assuming the first one comes out fine and this stays "spare"?
This week was more about preparing timber, inserting truss rods gluing on fingerboard, glued on a couple of flame maple caps on Swamp Ash bodies that will be thin line F hole T/C’s. Plus, routed two standard Swamp Ash T/C but not finish them yet. Did manage to finish an all Mahogany Jazzmaster with a Mahogany/Rosewood neck. Also finished two flamed roasted maple necks is a Jazzmaster and a T/C neck. Last job of the week I started a chambered T/C that's going to have a Brazilian Rosewood cap.
Two T/C's with flame maple caps (there are actually Sycamore), these will both be F hole T/C's.
Two standard Swamp Ash T/C's, although the top one I think is going to have a P90 neck pickup.
A chambered Swamp Ash T/C body with its Brazilian Rosewood cap.
4 maple necks with rosewood fingerboard's two will be Jazzmaster's, and two will be Strat's
Jazzmaster neck flame roasted maple, flame roasted maple T/C neck, mahogany/rosewood Jazzmaster neck.
Mahogany Jazzmaster with its Mahogany/Rosewood neck.