@johnnierox-boo I’m curious as to how the softwood body affects the sound of the guitar. Traditional teaching would suggest that it may not be that great but who cares? What are they like in real life...

@johnnierox-boo Thanks John, my router was falling into the cavity doing the larger bit, I'll need to make a wider router base plate soon.

They look great @johnnierox-boo

it rarely comes to anyone in a vacuum! Sorry for the bagpress joke Vacuum jokes tomorrow, to replace last week’s glue jokes ..... ?

I've moved on a bit today and got some body cavities routed. Attachment : 20200828_184708.jpg

I have now used 3 Freeway pickup selectors switches, they make two types of switch, one that looks like a Gibson style three way and one that looks like a 5 way Strat switch - the difference is that t...

Having wired guitars with a selector switch and a push/pull switch or two it’s quite nice to have all the options on on control and they can be fitted as a replacement for an existing switch - that’s ...

Hi John, No problem. Do you have the drawing as a PDF or only on paper? Either way its easy for me to do, the paper version just requires a little more time to scan and redraw. Either PM me with the a...

I bought loads of magnetic strips to store loads of hand tools, cup hooks for things with hanging holes and in pairs for hammers and long biggish screws for metal clamps. I managed to put up some lon...

I’m up for organising/hosting some kind of meet in the South East (North Hertfordshire). Also happy to do a bit of a factory tour/lunch whenever anyone may be passing through Letchworth. I’m just tryi...

@tv1010101 YesTV, it’s nearly always you that does that!! ? The thing is, if you are concentrating on Mark then you don’t really see the comments (not sure about the new big on screen speech bubbles ...

There have been numerous occasions when, if I had a blow torch to hand, things may have take a particularly bad turn!! I have learnt that it is useful to have something valueless and easily breakable ...

Fantastic looking neck and headstock. Just when you think that ever possible shape has already been done, then you see something new. And not only new but really beautiful too. Awesome!

Hi John, How many guitars have you got on the go at one time. All looks very impressive. Cheers, Russ ? ?

@david-johnson09 - the board is a must ! 😀 that's the law! joke aside I like the easy hight adjustment of the board... 🙂 @johnnierox-boo thanks 🙂 I started this March with the builds. repairs an...

Thanks guys, When my new website goes live (4 weeks?) there will be a section devoted to instrument making and offering services for custom making internal/external moulds and templates etc to custome...

Wowee indeed.....you need to start selling those moulds.

Wowee, wowee ... Now, just think what you could do with all of that technology ... I foresee a lot of interesting builds taking shape (literally)!

Hello everyone, Now that I have got my picture posting powers back here are some images of my recent development of the Maccaferri external mould design. I had never like having protruding blocks at t...

@johnnierox-boo Thanks. It is far away from perfect. I learn from the YouTube videos and now Marc's videos and materials online I wish one day I have time to participate in couple of days workshop wit...