it's truly inspiring to see you do this so fast! Looking great

the chambering in a TB: 53056283_149743989388960_1530509469719545978_n.jpg The chambering drastically reduces the surface area for the fingerboard to bond to the neck. As as I understand it, in the later years of the original Bean run the necks were made thinner by about 1/8", then they sandwic...

That is beautiful. I've never seen a Bean body interior before. Makes me rethink some of my choices. I've been working from home the last few days, so I've had a chance to fuss with this during lunch breaks. I got a carbide cup and flap wheel for my grinder- so rough cut the angle on the front of t...

My project is a TB500 body and a few other components (knobs, bridge, pickguards) built by Fran Krause from the Aluminum Axes group on FB. He bought a TB500 neck (I think one of the leftovers from when the factory closed) that had been built into a hideous flame-job George Fedden acrylic body. He re...

Mason wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:03 am Building aluminum guitars is something FM pastlives_archive has been talking about and I have been trying to force myself onto that project too. Will be watching this thread w/ interest!

FM pastlives_non_archive here. Very very interested in what you're building