Made some progress on my SG thing.
Learning how to use my chisels and scraper.
Too dang cold to work now.
Dan

Looks like several of us are building something out of cocobolo. Red cedar top, OM size, coco back and sides. I keep thinking this might be my dream guitar and the last I'll build for my self

Looks good. One of the coco bodies is for me as well but I have about 6 more dream builds in mind lol! Are you looking to keep building or hanging it up after this one?

Thank you - I need to pick your brains about some finishing issues. I plan to bind the guitar, f/b and headstock also in coco with a thin light fiber line and I'm very afraid the coco will bleed into the fiber (I've had this problem when trying to stain necks where I've used a light fiber to offset the headplate). Anyway, the plan is for Zpoxy pore fill and to pop the wood and either nitro or KTM-9. I'm thinking of doing the pore fill before binding with the hope that will seal the coco? Thoughts?

I'll keep building until the money runs out... I've got a commissioned barnwood tele also on the bench that I'll hand carry to New Zealand in March (tough duty, eh). And I'll probably come up with something else for my personal quiver.

Happy New Year.....

Retired 9 days ago

Now going to get on with make this pile into a uke aL0 style steel string and a 4 string guitar tuned like a cello .. oh and plus the 29 string celtic harp that has been sitting half finished in my living room for months..

Never did an electric body before. This one almost done. Owner got wood from 70 year old walnut tree his grandfather planted.

Currently I've got 5 guitars going, one in the booth, one ready for pore-filling, two ready for bindings, and one ready for brace carving. Today I'm working on necks and fretboards for the two unbound boxes.

Oh, Happy New Year!

M

What are u doing there? Looks cool

I plan to bind the guitar, f/b and headstock also in coco with a thin light fiber line and I'm very afraid the coco will bleed into the fiber (I've had this problem when trying to stain necks where I've used a light fiber to offset the headplate). Anyway, the plan is for Zpoxy pore fill and to pop the wood and either nitro or KTM-9. I'm thinking of doing the pore fill before binding with the hope that will seal the coco? Thoughts?

Are you curious about the fret marker scheme?

Is the light fiber line going to be right up against the cocobolo?

For the idea of doing the pore filling before binding, how much level sanding do you do of the sides/binding after installing the binding? I use z-poxy as a pore filler and in my case if I pore filled before binding, I would just end up sanding the z-poxy off (except in the pores) and would have to reapply it and then be faced with the potential bleeding problem again.