Thanks Bill. 🙂 I used the guitar for a full gig at PrestFest 2024 on Sunday (where Bill saw me) and then up to Glasgow for Sammy’s Open Mic at the ...

The back is on, the neck is in, the finish applied, the bridge fitted. Now it’s time to tackle the wiring. To make sure I didn’t make any wires to...

Thanks to @russ and @nsj. The Waterslide Guitars Instagram feed reveals that the pickups are Mojo pickups, handmade in the UK.

Wow! Well done that man! The web site is impressively uninformative but I’m going to assume that the pickups are traditional magnetic pickups in a f...

@russ I’d love to know what makes Easy French Polish easy. Longer curing time? Thicker solution? I came across a video on traditional FP techniques by...

And this is why I feel justified in calling my guitar the Bisset Bodge! Awesome work, Koen!

And twenty-four hours later:

@tv101 I know, right? Otherwise it would have been like a broken light bulb - Bsst!

It’s not a decorative hole any more. It’s a feature!

Thanks for all the tips folks. I used the smallwonder-music.co.uk black CA with a tooth pick on the first pass. I’ve got some micro-tip applicators bu...

Dear reader, it was too thick to go through the nozzle. I took the nozzle off and managed to squeeze out a glutinous blob, but I’m not going to risk t...

@liebe Thanks Dan. It looks like black superglue is thick. 03a describe theirs as medium thick. I’ve just ordered a 20g bottle from because £6.95....

No mishap. It’s been on the drawings from the beginning. How could I, a simple brute peasant, reference the classic elegance and sophistication o...

@robin You’re a bad man 😉 My darling wife told me not to be such a fussy bugger. and I’ve decided this is a prototype - a proof of concep...

After an extended hiatus, I went back to the workshop to glue on the back. I made a couple of MDF clamping rings to help distribute the pressure a...

@rathius Confirmed. The ES-339 is like the ES-335, with a solid maple block wrapped in laminated top, back and sides. However, Gibson have also mad...