@brie I bring whatever wood I'm using in the house when it starts getting cold and damp, half built guitar or whatever. Just take it out the to the shed to do bits then back in. I think Mark suggested...

Just make sure you're wearing your hi-viz jacket whilst soldering, and you'll be fine with the leaded stuff.

That probably depends on your level of experience / confidence - not guitar building specifically, but also with precision woodworking in general. On a scale of 0-10, I started as a negative number on...

@tv101 carbon fiber is necessary for longer necks not so much guitars but primarily bass guitars especially if using certain types of tonewoods. If you are a bass guitar builder, it is almost always a...

It's a lot of time that would be wasted though. I'm not suggesting using CF rods in *every* neck, but if you're using a wood or a cut that wisdom says might be more prone to movement, why not do what...

@koendb can't fight nature lol

Me too I am wondering this. My guess is that , if wood really wants to warp , it will warp around whatever is in the way. I also wonder if you add carbon rods in a guitar with a trussrod, does the car...

@tv101 meh, worst case I'll make a new neck, I like making them lol

I can't see that they'd hurt - so for the sake of another couple of slots in the neck and a few£ of carbon fibre bar, I see no reason *not* to do it. Of course, you'd have to use the correct, acoustic...

@tv101 do you believe carbon rods actually do anything? That somehow they'll stop a neck from twisting if it wants to? Personally I think it's a fad to sell us guitar people more stuff we don't need l...

Interesting to re-read this thread. I've got a neck-blank sized piece of Ash, quarter-sawn and not too heavy which I think I might just use on a future neck build. But maybe with some added carbon fi...

@tej Ash makes a beautiful neck, done a few myself with zero issues but I always do a volute which may or may not help. Northern/european ash. It's the denser , heavier hard one. Southern ash aka swam...

@mattbeels well sadly, after all this time I still have two pieces of ash for a body and some that I can use for a neck and no time to spend making a guitar out of it all. Since squired som mahogany t...

@rocknroller912 Yes, Swamp Ash.

@swepri cheers, I think that’s the hardest part when starting out is not to rush things, I’m trying to decide what the best option for me is, video or workshop course - the support on here is amazing ...

@genista Welcome onboard! So far I have built 3 guitars after watching the online courses. I found this site during covid, when Mark did a live build and other great videos on youtube, which got me to...

@nsj there are worse things to get obsessed with ☺️

@tv101 🤣

@boo Looking forward the Course on Guitar builds not sure which Guitar I will build first Cheers Boo

@swepri Thanks for your welcome Swepri