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Damn right too - she'd only shoot brads into you bench...

My first few attempts had all sorts of wonk built in, it's part of the experience! Your repair looks pretty good, and I'll bet most people won't even notice any asymetry. A small cheap spray gun might well be good enough for this job - my guitars have all been finished with a touchup gun which...

The finish is probably polyester, very few factory guitars use nitro these days. You'll find matching the finish very hard - I'd probably opt for a black or very dark brown opaque colour on the area of new timber, feathered out in either direction, along the neck and the headstock. Do you have...

By accident. If you heat treat a steel tool so that the end few inches are nicely hardened and tempered, the thinner portion at the very end of the bevel can be over heated and end up too brittle.

I should have conducted a risk assessment before my sky installers fitted our dish. They put cable clips every 6 inches through the felt roof of my garage. Un-fookin'-believable, and they do this for a living!

Generally I make the neck the same depth as the mortice that way there is no need to trim the heel. You can use the tip of the brad point drill instead of a bradawl - it'll do the job just as well.

A twist drill is fine, just mark them first with a bradawl so it doesn't wander.

http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=223 This might be of interest.... I hammered my first few fretboards, and they turned out fine, but pressing is much easier on the ears!

Waxoyl. http://www.waxoylrustproofing.co.uk/whe ... waxoyl.php My dad swears by this stuff, a generous application around the welds and a thin coat over the rest should prevent rust starting.

Yep - as suggested, a fine gauge guitar string would do the trick. You want the thinnest high E string you can get, .008 would probably be the thinnest you'll find commonly available.

The problem with visually checking the blade is that the strobe effect caused by fluorescent lights can make the blade appear stationary when it's still turning. A massive amount of tablesaw accidents are caused by contact with the blade after it has been powered down, usually whilst reaching...

I glue them in with epoxy, after wiping the u-channel with a little thinners or ,meths to degrease, and roughing slightly with coarse-ish sandpaper to give a little 'tooth' for adhesion. http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?page_id=7

Given the size of the channel in the neck, I'd expect that to be a u-channel trussrod. These are best installed glued into the channel, which lends a lot of stiffness to the neck. The rod moves freely in the channel, but the channel is glued solidly to the neck.

I'd have made the angle less steep, but you should still be OK. Once you've got the major structural stuff done you'll have the joys of finish repair next - it makes the woodworking look like a piece of piss!

What a handsome chap! He looks a lot like one half of my much missed pair of fancy rats, Buffy & Willow. They we're also great fans of nesting in jumpers, but also quite inclined to chew big holes in them too if you didn't keep an eye on them.

The damage doesn't look out of keeping with the collision you describe. If she is on the make you have my sympathy. Several years ago, when I was a very inexperienced driver, I reversed my work van into a stationary car, belonging to a customers daughter. We both witnessed the impact, and...

They sound like keepers! I'm always amazed by customers who don't offer a cup of tea or coffee, or even some water to somebody working in their home, even if they're on an all day job in the heat of summer or depths winter. The offer of a cup of tea will always be appreciated, and home made...

I've wrapped tennons with a long thick shaving taken with a coarse set plane. You need to experiment a bit to get a shaving which is flexible enough to bend around the tennon, without being so thin it tears like paper.

Whilst I'm not sure splines are the best solution here, I think they are probably the easiest approach to reinforce the reglued headstock. They're also unlikely to prevent you using a scarf joint if they fail, so it won't hurt to try them and see how it all holds up. If it does fail, the scarf...

I don't think dowels or splines are the best idea for neck repairs, they often remove glueing area in the original repair, and it simply isn't possible to fit them such that they are both perfectly fitted *and* well wetted with glue, and they end abruptly creating a stress concentration which...