You can understand why it's nearly all gone when you see that can't you? I know where there's a stash of it ... 😉

That is one beautiful piece of Rio!! You can understand why it's nearly all gone when you see that can't you?

And here are my Bailey-build-babes ( ? ) Attachment : DSC_3328.JPG Attachment : DSC_3320.JPG Attachment : DSC_3310.JPG There's a bit of guitar design and building evolution goin...

Looks great finished

Naturally, I got it home, and started with the mods ... I replaced the black plastic p'up rings with some metal ones, but that pushed the p'up a bit further down into the cavity, where there were a *l...

Someone went and tipped some paint all over it ... Attachment : IMG_0882.JPG Attachment : IMG_0886.JPG Now the fun bit Attachment : IMG_0893.JPG Attachment : IMG_0899.JPG ...

Attachment : IMG_0855.JPG Attachment : IMG_0853.JPG Attachment : IMG_0852.JPG Attachment : IMG_0858.JPG Attachment : IMG_0874.JPG Getting there now 🙂

Let's get carving ... Attachment : IMG_0770.JPG Attachment : IMG_0781.JPG Apparently, I'd missed a bit ... Attachment : IMG_0784.JPG Attachment : IMG_0786.JPG

Attachment : IMG_0750.JPG Have I shown you my trick with the clamps? (Impresses all the ladies) Attachment : IMG_0753.JPG

This piece of offcut is still my main sanding beam in my workshop (the flat side, obviously!). Waste not, etc ... Attachment : IMG_0727.JPG My, what a long neck you have ... Attachment : I...

WE FOUND IT ... Attachment : IMG_0711.JPG (That's the item in the StewMac catalogue that Mark hadn't bought yet. Looks like it's on the last page, so guessing he just hadn't read that page yet...

Let's start with a drawing. And a very long piece of wood ... Attachment : IMG_0708.JPG Attachment : IMG_0710.JPG My, my, my said Mr Wolf. What a nice big cavity you have.

After my first two visits (2007 & 2008 - documented elsewhere), I managed to home-build a few guitars. All relatively simple, but still very satisfying! Roll foward to 2012, and, after a particul...

Recently the forums seem to have hit a critical mass of activity where quite often messages have dropped out of the ‘recent posts’ window before I (and I suspect others) have read them. Is it possible...

@johnnierox-boo I meant another cover plate on the back so only the pick up itself would be visible from the front

I know it would mean having another cover plate but couldn’t they be mounted from behind to avoid having the visible recesses for the screw fixings?

@johnnierox-boo don’t worry. I have days when making sense feels like a second language!!

This is one idea @johnnierox-boo , still screwed to the wood but more secure I've got something similar to that - though implemented in cheap plastic rather than brass - to secure the P90 sized HB in...

I’m not sure whether you have covered this but I want to install pickups (humbuckers) into a body with no pickup rings (direct mounted). I know people use wood screws but I don’t like that idea. I hav...

4 x 2 and plywood..a bit of hardboard on top...nice and simple. Pretty cheap two and solid.