Grainger ferrule blocks but you need the routing templates too! They are good though. @Boo - I used the ferrule block in a recent build, but - being a cheapskate - made my own routing templates!!

My favourite song today brings us to Cuba:

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, great to be here! See you on the next livestream!

@boo It is the Da Vinci one boo. I noticed that Mark is selling a set in his shop. 🎸🎶🙂🙏

@boo Thanks, I'll need a hair transplant and some talent to be anything like Bruce! 😀

@robin thanks, I have read your post, First Practice Build, and am really impressed with what you have done on a workbench...but most of all thanks for sharing your mistakes, these are most helpful. I...

Hipshot I've used that bridge on a build. Nice and solid, good quality. Not cheap, but worth the extra ££s. On the ££s topic - my first experience of the Wilkinson wrapover bridge that Mark u...

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Grainger Guitar Parts Those guys are good. The guitar parts business is a sideline to their main business - because they guy who runs the main business is a guitarist! All parts made by them, and t...

I think the last one I bought was in about 2015 @Boo - Impressed that you can remember the specific year! I'm either too old with failing memory, or I (used to) buy too many guitars. Before that I ...

Last guitar I bought was a Jay Turser custom jazzbox with floating minu humbucker and a 1964 Epiphone Century. Around 4 years ago.

They rarely get played - they're not very accessible - and I think of them as a collection rather than as playing guitars. @tv101 All of mine are working guitars and all get played. All except one we...

@boo Serendipity boo. 😲

Thanks for all the replies, it’s a great community here and I am pleased to be a part of it. I need to make some sawdust!

Hi there, Paul here PS, Tony here!

Good to "meet" you Paul @peebee 🙂 Over the last couple of years I have been accumulating the tools to get into making my own guitars, electric, the thought of making an acoustic scares the hell out o...

Welcome Paul. I think you should start with Mark's Bandsman but I guess one day you've got to have a go at The Flying V. Cheers, Russ 🎸🎶🙏🙂

Welcome to group Paul. I hope you can get back to work soon, we all need to go on holiday. Meanwhile turn your scrap pine into a guitar, thats what happened when I started just practicing techniques w...