Latest completed build - Telecaster fyom Driftwood

I do realise we are talking about building guitars here, not the Large Hadron Collider @boo Ah, i was going to run a miniature Hadron Collider in the body of the bandsman, maybe it’s just not necessa...

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment......such a unique Blues man. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

BRILLIANT @Marcel - thanks for posting that. They are a joy to hear and no lesser joy to watch.

Sounded good to me Dee Haha they don’t call me chugger for nowt 🙄 but played on a homemade guitar....priceless

Better @tej I suspect ✊🏻 I got a message back in the day from @markbailey on that vid about the templates saying it looked like the workshop. There wasn’t as many on here (actually I th...

BRILLIANT @Marcel - thanks for posting that. I've just spent a good half-hour listening through their YT channel and adding some CDs to my cart on their website. But it's really the job of @Russ to e...

My favourite song today:

I’ll start a thread at some point for updates, would have already but given most people here have presumably done what I’m soon to do I didn’t actually expect anyone to want to see another build of th...

How’s the DAW adventure going I'll email you something @deej

unboxing vid tomorrow C'mon, c'mon, c'mon .... it's tomorrow already.

Yeah @tej of course we want to see your Bandsman build but not only that, we want to see you building it. 😉

@deej I would agree with you, we all want to see what others are doing even if it’s the same model. The live streams gave me an incentive to start building again after a quiet spell of not doing much.

@deej I’ll start a thread at some point for updates, would have already but given most people here have presumably done what I’m soon to do I didn’t actually expect anyone to want to see another build...

Thanks everyone for your views, I think that I’m just going to go with the hammer. I like the press idea as I like most task specific tools but for the number of guitars I’ll be making I don’t think t...

Hi @ jonhodgson, that’s an interesting consideration but it does rely on the fret wire being manufactured to a very close tolerance and this isn’t my experience. Maybe brands differ this respect and t...

I’ve used a hammer for years until I started getting hand problems and thought I would try the vice grip type of press from Tonetech. Guess what I’m still undecided. If the slots are the correct size ...

@darrenking Perhaps the best argument is that you can achieve better consistency. Chris of Highline guitars is of the opinion that using a fret press, along with precision at every other stage of fret...

I’ve fretted 4 necks with a hammer so far As you all know, I really love a gadget or a jig but I just don’t understand the benefit, either in terms of speed of insertion, or of effectiveness, of usin...

I’ve fretted 4 necks with a hammer so far - never tried a press - hammer is very simple and quick....