What I want to know is how many points the member at position 11 has! In fear of my top 10 membership! Darren

Hi, I also meant to ask you all to repost the details to any other guitar/instrument making/woodworking groups you may belong to. If the wood doesn’t ...

Happy new year to You both, Mark and Carol, and I hope that 2025 is your best year for quite some time. Hope to hear from you soon Darren

@rathius Hi Rathius and happy new year to you. You really shouldn't be seeing this kind of failure if the veneers are bonded properly in the first...

Good afternoon, Here's a question that I am sure must also come up with 6 string pick ups. The bridge that I have ordered has 19mm string spacing ...

I guess it also allows for a greater distance between the pick ups and I think with a longer neck it would make sense to go for a heavier body materia...

Now THAT is commitment! 🤣 🤣

I'd have taken this up with the supplier as it sounds like there was a pre-existing weakness in the soundboard. Before you glue it onto the body have ...

You could always cut layers of 1.5mm ply or 2mm MDF and laminate them together using laser cut dowel holes for alignment. Darren

@nsj for any fret template that is printed be it on laser printer, plotter or anything else I would always want some kind of reference measurement to ...

To my mind, given that the accuracy of the fret positions are absolutely key to the sound and quality of the finished instrument, it seems a false eco...

Wealden Tool Co. cutters are significantly cheaper than Trend and, IMHO, are of a higher quality. I use them with manual routing and their solid TC sp...

Good morning, I'm a bit late to the party but yes, there should be an offset for the nut position slot. I allow for this on the templates that I make ...

All of my larger presses (4m3 per hour and upwards) have a built-in vacuum adjustment knob so the pressure can be slowly increased. This is a techniqu...

You mean this stuff: Diethylene glycol monoethethyl ether. I bought a coupl of 2.5l bottles of it from a lab supplies company 15 years ago and I;ve st...

Hi @tv101Yes, they played the OGWT in the early seventies and their set is available on YouTube. Speaking of OGWT, I went to see Ron Sexsmith at the U...

I second that. Anyone playing around 'under the bonnet' so to speak, should definitely have this book by their side.