@peebee Thanks for your compliment, I impressed myself with what I managed to build. Hopefully I shouldn't have too many mistakes to document on my next build, I'll try my best not to repeat any, no ...

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Oh wow, drummers are really getting beat up in this thread. Sorry, I'll get my coat.

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Schaller tuners. Back in the day they were "THE" absolute best you could buy. However, recently I've been reading in various places that their quality has dropped considerably - uneven, sticky gearing...

Hi Cigarboxguy, Middle men always profit from being in the middle and by doing something that adds value to whatever it is that they buy and sell. In this case converting bloody great big lumps of tre...

but it's still essentially them profiting as a middle man between myself and the timber merchant. Or, looked at another way, it’s the price of him taking raw planks from the timber merchant, thickne...

Hey everyone I'm new here, hope everyone is good! I have looked around for timber to build cigar box guitar necks, and found a few places like chicken bone john and ashton music, but I have built guit...

@tv101 Very droll! It's not so much the banging, its the driving all those little wedges in with no way of countering the force they collectively apply. I might try squishing the tang a little with a...

Just watched the Bagpress Masterclass Launch video from Mark's series - so came back for another read of this. Still in awe of the quality of the work! Now I just need to head off to make some Lutes ...

Here's a problem that I've been fretting over (boom, boom, see what I did there?) Has anyone ever resorted to simply gluing in frets? I ask because the neck of my Petite Bouche doesn't have a truss ro...

I have found that hammering in 20+ tightly fitting frets tangs can actually exert enough force to cause the neck to bend Hmmmmmm. @darrenking, as an alternative to hammering, I've got a cheapy drill ...

Thank you Russ, in retrospect it probably was a little ambitious for my third build but I've learnt a hell of a lot from it (so far)! Guitar making is a bit like a cold swimming pool. The though of ge...

@darrenking Very Impressed Darren........ although it all seems more daunting when you're just about to start out. Cheers, Russ

I have ended up shaping the first bridge by hand (small plane and then curved scraper) and, having studied the shape the cnc machining may be more complex than I at first imaged given that it seems to...

Brilliant ! The next stage is hold them down at either end and machine the diagonal radiused scoops on either side. I think the programming for this should be fairly straight forward so hopefully b...

The first stage of machining has been completed and the two halves glued together. It takes about 15 minutes to machine each half and the finished pieces have 15mm extensions on either end which provi...

Thanks Mark, Watch this space! Darren

@darrenking Most modern bridges I have seen that are of this style are not hollowed out like the one in the drawing. You could just skip it and leave it solid. If you make it from two separate pieces ...