PS If you're planning on using the Freeway switch, make sure you get 4-wire HBs. That way you can wire the different tap/phase options. If you get standard 2-wire pickups, most of the freeway positi...

I already have a Mexican Tele, which I love to bits, so I would like this guitar to sound, or have the ability to sound, different. I have got to have one of the the 6 position Freeway switches (thank...

I'm having my own personal Newport Folk Festival moment, bought about by walking past a lump of 40mm thick Khaya every day for the last 4 months! Time to go electric! I found a plank of Claro walnut ...

Oak is an unusual wood to use for guitar bodies. It’s usually quite dense / heavy. Thats an aside really, but worth double checking before you end up with a guitar too heavy to be comfortable. I woul...

Similarly, "grain gravy" is a new one on me, but it's probably just an Americanism. I *am* familiar with the wet sanding technique. You sand with oil, rather than with more normal dry sanding paper. ...

hello, i tried the "gravy" method today. i used my orbital sander and went from an 80 grit, 120, 150, 240, 320. then using 1200 wet and dry, mentioned in the youtube video, i poured some boiled linsee...

hello, i have some oak i found in a skip and cut it into a body. only problem is the grain. i have tried some wood filler that i added water too. it seemed to work a bit but i would like to try someth...

Yes, yes, yes, I need to carve some more necks. it’s the best part of the build IMHO ??

I love carving my own necks I still get a buzz when carving a neck It was one of the great parts of the build courses. Start with a square piece of timber and a rasp .... and then a bit of sweat a...

I still get a buzz when carving a neck (only done 4 so far....) - almost didn't believe it first time when over a few minutes it went from 3 facets to a smooth curve. My Firebird neck is a bit chunki...

I love carving my own necks...very satisfying. It’s also good to experiment on different styles and “chunkyness”..

Hey TV!!!! We were in the same group! That's me next to Mark with the thinline Tele!!! I recognised that amazique top in a second....... Boy, did we have a great time...... Looking somewhat thinner i...

Posted by: @ is Mark wearing blue & black or gold & white ??

he must have worked most of the night Indeed. Never forgotten. ? He made a lot of smiles.

Billy was totally brilliant on my first course build - he must have worked most of the night to take my build and my mate Dave’s guitars at the end of our penultimate day and deliver mine with a satin...

Posted by: @ Yes - only need 6 clamps...... Rutlands changed the colour of their 4” clamps from blue to black - to clear they were doing 10 for £29.......

And that really was just 5 days. Quite how did Mark manage to oversee 4 "enthusiastic amateurs" building such brilliantly finished guitars, all completely different designs and materials, in 5 days? I...

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