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I made the jig out of an old wooden miter box. I use an embedded feeler gauge as an indexing pin. The sled has a 25.5 scale on one side and 24.75 on the other. I cut them myself using pre-slotted fretboards as templates. The saw is from Lowe's or maybe Home Depot. The depth stop is stuck on...

Starting to look like a guitar

More Fretboard day! The Fretboard got slotted and years on the sides. It just needs a little cleaning up on one side and around the overhang. Here it is being slotted: Here is just double stick taped to the neck:

My current "in progress" scratch builds:

No shame in kit building or "partscasting." I just originally got started with scratch building right from the beginning, so I never saw the needed for the other. For me it started out as a financial thing: wood was relatively cheap and my father had a complete woodworking shop. So I bought a...

On the fretboard radius jig. There's a whole thread on it here somewhere. I even posted some video of it in action earlier today.

And today was fretboard day:

More body: Neck:

I decided the strat deserved it's own build thread so I'm putting everything here now. Templates: Body:

To be fair, I didn't invent it. I bought plans for it. But I did improve it by adding the sled drive mechanism and dual action crank.

Yes, manual crank. It is a little wobbly in use, but there is extra camera shake.

I finally got around to shooting some video of the fretboard radius jig in action. It's only a test piece that I was using to check something out before putting some cocobolo in it for real but you can get the idea.

I'm sad to say that I rarely play. I play in spurts occasionally, but honestly, I'd usually rather be in my shop building than in my studio playing. :(

Here's the neck in it's current state of doneness:

I'm not using plywood. I laminated a body blank out of poplar planks. Three .75 inch planks in the middle sandwiched on the top and back by 2 planks each which had been milled down to .5 inch. The result was a 1.75 inch body blank.

So I have recently gotten back to building. I am building my first strat-style guitar. The body is a 7 piece poplar laminate. The neck is maple. I am currently thinking about a cocobolo fretboard. I have also gotten back to work on the V. I have been doing some serious sanding in the body and...

You are very talented. (I believe I have said that before.) I love to follow your builds

This is a great post, Col. I have already bought the guitar. It is in good to very good condition and plays well.

I love the look of those little sound holes, but this one is fine. I don't have a "great" ear but it sounds really good to me even unplugged. I put extra light phosphor bronze strings on it today and it is playing great.

I hear that! I will just wear a strap even when sitting down. So far I am really liking both the sound and the feel of the guitar.