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paint a small matt black square on your mirror surface for your ir to read off. we have ir cameras in my work and if you point it at a shiney surface you see your reflection as heat on the camera you dont even need to be that close to the shiney surface and it doesnt even need to be overly shiney al...

Had a bit of a disaster with my dye tested loads on scrap thought I had it down, gave it a go and it ended up deep purple , ended up sanding it all back and sprayed it with a tin of cellolose tinted lacquer that I convinced my local car parts place to make up for me, I won't give up on the dye thoug...

many thanks, ill let you know how i get on.

I planning on finishing my next project with black dye sand back and blue dye then and clear waterborne sanding sealer and clear waterborne lacquer. The problem im having is the blue dye i have is very dark, if i apply it neat it looks almost black, im not positive on how to lighten up the colour, i...

Thanks Bryan, yeah its just some african mahogany, there was quite a bit of spring back but i got it fairly close in the end, i think i like the shape of your cutaway more to be honest, but i think ill just carry on and see how it turns out, i was going to go for a cedar top but i got a bit of sitka...

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg502/jonnymcclean/IMAG0292.jpg I managed to make the bend fairly closely I have it clamped roughly to my template to fully dry out, I will come back later to see if I need to adjust it slightly, I had to soften the curves slightly but overall I'm happy enough, I...

Thanks Mark, I may have to have a rethink,

I think I will change that up a bit might have a go with some purple heart or sone abalone or something, I haven't decided on the final details yet mahogany back and sides spruce bracing maybe a cedar top mahogany neck not sure about the fingerboard yet, although I think I might try binding it aswel...

Hi thanks for all your advice and comments, I have decided on a shape for my cutaway the Florentine cuts look good but I have decided on a more rounded Venetian style cut, I have a rough template made and I think tomorrowi will try and bend the side, hopfully it won't be a total disaster, http://i12...

Close up of soundhole rosette, two strips of b/w/b purfling

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg502/jonnymcclean/IMAG0278.jpg Headstock with gotoh 510s http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg502/jonnymcclean/IMAG0280.jpg Rosewood fingerboard EVO gold fretwire gold Mop dots http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg502/jonnymcclean/IMAG0283.jpg Mahogany back an...

thanks i must post a few more photos to show it in a bit better detail my next build is a 00 with a cutaway maybe a couple of other wee changes

Many thanks looking forward to the challenge

Hi, I'm looking for some advice regarding cutaways, I am ready to build my second guitar, my first was a l00 style and I would like to build another similar one with a few changes, I would like to add a cutaway although the upper bout is oly 259mm, or 10.2", is this too narrow to put a cut away...

Hi thanks for the comments , it sounds pretty good, quite bright and very loud, I'm fairly happy with how it turned out, I worked pretty much free hand from the plans I had, hot pipe to bend the sides, had to make different jigs as I went along, jigs to radius the bracing ect, but I enjoyed that jus...

Thanks, I found plans on another site, http://www.grellier.fr/plans.php?lang=en , I'm an engineer in a factory in Belfast Northern Ireland, so I have access to lots of equipment including plotters, so I got full size plans from the above link and printed them out, I have only recently found this fou...

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg502/jonnymcclean/IMAG0257.jpg This is my first build not perfect but a good learning experience, mahogany back and sides and spruce top, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, made lots if mistakes, hopefully ill make less on my next one, glad I found this forum some...