The Yamaha AES 1500 has a body length of 535mm and lower bout width of 430mm, so I’ve scaled that down to match the dimensions of a poor abused Vox Tornado which I bought for £40 in Africa a lifetime ...

I built a couple of guitars in my youth, and assembled a couple of partcasters in my sensible years, but having discovered guitarmaking.co.uk, I’m itching to try a semi-acoustic. My current guitar is ...

I would vote for Archtop, 17 inch Bendetto style guitar

If proof were needed that @markbailey is ALWAYS RIGHT! Tell Carol that! hehehe - Cheers James!

About time @Russ get in the game. a Rabbit hole is waiting...

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All advice welcome. Just jump in! Mark’s courses are really well structured and easy to follow. And when you finish following them, you find - as if by magic - a finished guitar in your hands! Then ...

Posted by: @ Well Peeps the time has come for me to move on to the next stage of my guitar making revolution. After spending the last 3 months listening to all your advice on the forum and watching ...

Posted by: @markbailey Hey Russ - happy to have you here! Let us know how we can help... I would love to have a copy of that doc BTW...would be good to hunt it down...glad somebody saw it! Hi Mark, ...

Posted by: @darrenking Hi Russ,Have fun and make guitars. There’s nothing better!Darren Thanks Darren, Hopefully one day I'll be good enough to need the use your Bagpress. Cheers, Russ

What a fantastic little documentary on your background and the history of Bailey Guitars. You must put a link to that on your website. Darren

Hi Russ,Have fun and make guitars. There’s nothing better!Darren

@markbailey It's a pleasure Mark. I had to get my kids to show me how to attach it. I think you should attach a link to it on Workshop Wednesday. It will certainly inspire others. Cheers, Russ.

@russ Amazing! Well you are obviously a bit more internet savvy than me as you found it on my own FB site? ? THANKS!!

Posted by: @markbailey Hey Russ - happy to have you here! Let us know how we can help... I would love to have a copy of that doc BTW...would be good to hunt it down...glad somebody saw it! Hi Mark...

Hey Russ - happy to have you here! Let us know how we can help... I would love to have a copy of that doc BTW...would be good to hunt it down...glad somebody saw it!

Posted by: @mikeyrjiom Hi Russ Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you will appreciate how much knowledge can be gained from Mark and this forum. There are some very talented people frequenting it. Good l...

Oh and welcome on board...

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