Posted by: @Russ and the best way to restring the guitar? Ever since I saw this, this is the way I string a guitar ... The numbers just denote string thickness - (is it thousands of an inch diame...

Shortly after finishing my first build at home I started working on a Strat model and a Jazz bass. Strat: Mahogany body, maple neck and fretboard, Tonerider Pure VintageTRS1 pick-ups, Gotoh tuners an...

From a distance it does, but I keep seeing all the little flaws. But as I said one learns from his mistakes.

It's all the little flaws features that make it special though. It's not an identikit, off a production line, mass produced thing that you can pick off any shop wall. Something handmade will always h...

Like Bob Ross always used to say: we don't make mistakes we only have happy accidents. ?

I made many mistakes (and still do) but one learns from his mistakes, so over the years I've learned a lot! I know that feeling well @marcel That Tele build looks to have turned out pretty well thoug...

In July 2004 I went to Scotland to build a guitar in a week on the course of guitar maker Mark Bailey. And with that I was hooked. In the years since, I went to him four more times, all four times to ...

Great video of spraying Billy! I wonder how many hours and hours and years and years of practice went into making that look so easy ...

And this is a video of Billy spraying my bass. He truly was a spray gun wizard!

Here's a video of the building process.

@robin To sharpen an 'incannel' gouge (internal bevel): You can use a section broomstick to make a round sharpening stone by sticking wet and dry to it - if it is really bad I use a dremel with round ...

Hi John, I haven't watched this video but I don't think you'd need to run through from 80g every time you sharpen something. If so then you have left it far too long between visits to your sharpening ...

Why cut down on soldering? You can’t beat the smell of hot flux!! ? I know - if it wasn't gaseous, you wouldn't be meant to inhale it, right?? I don't have so much of a problem with soldering. Once ...

@tv1010101 Why cut down on soldering? You can’t beat the smell of hot flux!! My father worked at HP in the printed circuit shop for many years and we undertook numerous home electronics projects when ...

Thank you, John!

Thank you, it could not have been done without the best guitar building tutor in the world Mark Bailey.

In 2004 I went to the Bailey workshop to build a guitar for the first time. A year later I returned to build a bass and in 2006 I realised I was addicted. So in 2006 again I travelled to Scotland to m...

My addiction to (bass)guitar building was incurable, so in 2008 again I returned to the Bailey workshop. This time to make a fretless bass. Swamp ash body with a figured walnut top, maple (scarfed) ne...

While were on the subject of sharpening iv'e got two ancient gouges that need sharpened. One of them was in a junk box in my dads workshop when I was a kid, I'm fairly sure that it belonged to my gram...

Hi John, If you are buying secondhand tools that need a degree of initial rescuing I guess these grits of paper would work but I think that 80g and 120g are a maybe little ‘agricultural’ for routine s...