I’ve only ever owned 25.5” scale guitars, I tried to play as SG copy that had a shorter scale length and simply couldn’t play anything well at all, felt very alien everything being that little bit out...

24.75" scale length is indeed easier for bending. Same strings feel less stiff then a 25.5" scale length. I guess 25" is a good compromise and probably the shortest scale length to allow for 24 frets...

Interesting you talk about scale length and which to choose. I am in the process of starting another build and also changing the scale length. My previous build was a 24.75 scale (Gibson Les Paul ...e...

A couple of months ago , I started drawing a body shape that I liked on a piece of scrap paper. Attachment : IMG_20210321_170221071.jpg I quite liked the idea and decided to start working out s...

That’s point taken mate. The pint comes tonight

Sound advice Rocknroller much appreciated. As I say it’s all pie in the sky at the moment but worth thinking about. Thanks for your input on this pint taken. Cheers

@powerful It could work however too much moisture can cause a ripple effect across the wood as the steam is absorbed differently by different parts of the grain eg flame maple where there is light and...

Yes Tej me too which led me to believe that directly introducing steam would simplify things a bit. I know people use steam boxes so maybe this would give similar results. Again I'm only guessing and ...

@powerful can’t hurt to try as long as your experiment isn’t on expensive wood, I expect your main issue might be that you won’t get an even temperature over the length of the tube. I’ve not bent wood...

I think I might. It seems plausible to me but I really have no idea. Hopefully someone will stop me making a catastrophic error before I jump straight in (which is what I usually tend to do). If I can...

@powerful it is at least worth the experiment!

I think that you should try it out for us all @powerful and let us know how you get on. 👍😁 🎶🎸🙏🙂

Hi. Looking at all the ways to bend a accoustic side and watching Marks' youtube video, it appears that the fundamental thing to bending is the creation of steam. So if this is the case, would a pipe ...

@koendb excellent, looking forward to hearing it once I get everything together 🙂 I dropped a Dimarzio True Tone (think that’s what it’s called) into the bridge, mainly as a sadly quite expens...

I wish I’d asked you for some sound samples now, those are the same pups I chose for my build! @tej I ve got a hotslag in the bridge position on my Ibanez. It sounds so much better then the original...

The pickups I used in this Bailey Bandsman are Hot Slags from Iron Gear. @boo I wish I’d asked you for some sound samples now, those are the same pups I chose for my build!

@boo I prefer the all black hardware for this, it looks more intentional and the contrast with the bright pink works well to my eye. I can’t really explain why but the white looks like you’d have boug...

I prefer the black too.I do understand @jonhodgson though, but I then would rather keep the black scratch plate with white pickups and accents or perhaps cream ones, as white might be too much of a co...

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