You might just live on the edge of their range or something! Here in the SE US they are abundant

I can head out to a nature trail, look off into the woods on one side, and spot 2-4 of these beauties suspended in webs from the same spot.

Only ever had one in my yard, unfortunately she chose to build a web right above the porch door and gave us quite a fright

hell yeah brother go kill an antelope

The good ol days, obviously

I have recently tried bamboo underwear and I will not buy different anymore

It’s inspired by all the X-Twitter employees

I have no stake in the teams but you gotta love a baseball moment like that

Amazing. It showed up in my ‘Hot’ feed lol

you had me at pork roast

No no, this is Twitter because this poor guy doesn’t have any coworkers left to ask.

Thank you! I did the headstock inlay from scratch, for the fingerboard I bought a set of the trapezoids and just laid them in

That’s awesome, you’ll get there! I never completed a full project like a kit but I had purchased a scrap heap that was one a guitar from eBay to practice on trying to fix it up, it definitely helps you get ready.

Definitely share some pics here when you finish the partscaster!

Thanks for the ideas! I hadn’t thought about budget apps but that could be a good one.

Not sure if I have use cases for n8n or not, but I’ll go learn about it and find out!

unga bunga

I enjoy making diagrams, and I spent as much time on this as I did because my internet has been out for 2 days and counting and it was an offline tool I already had. Nevertheless, thanks for the link to a new tool to look at

That’s awesome. Thanks so much for sharing!

Hey, welcome!

Thanks for sharing, this is awesome. I’ve never heard about making stuff from metal dust, what kind of process does that take?

Also what pickups are those? The covers on them look great.

Awesome, same boat - took RIF off my phone home screen and took an evening to try to figure out what’s going on over here.

A bigger community will always recommend to start with a kit first so that’s definitely not a bad route, but there are more ways to shake that tree. The biggest part is to get some practice with the tools and techniques before you cut/stain/etc your best wood, but you can always do that with scrap wood as you go, doesn’t have to be a kit.

A pre made neck is an great compromise, it has the most fidgety and slow bits to make.

Good luck! I hope you get the time to try it out, very rewarding and worth the time.

Holy cow I didn’t expect someone to find my new community so fast lol. I’m just learning Lemmy, so I’m curious - did you search for luthier or did it show up on a all-communities type page?

A from-scratch build is a big (and can easily be expensive) project. But it is very manageable in small steps. To get something ‘playable’ at the end for a first guitar, really only a few critical parts have to be correct - for example, the nut to bridge distance, the fret spacing, and the neck angle and bridge height (and thus string height), mainly. The color/finish can be a disaster, the shape of the body pieces can be all wrong, you can have a huge dent/chip - basically you can (and you will) mess up a ton of things, but you can always keep going. It’s harder than you would think to mess up to the point of having to stop. IMO motivation to see it all the way through over what can be weeks/months is the hardest thing, and understanding the previous point makes it much less daunting.

I’d love to answer more specific questions or give different kinds of tips if you’d like - thanks for commenting!