@tv101 Happy birthday and that’s a nice looking guitar by the way. Hope to see you on the video chat tomorrow night.

Attachment : TV 01.JPG *update* it is 16 years old - 2007 vintage ! This beauty was the result of @tv101 's first visit to the Bailey Workshop ... seems like yesterday (and a hundred years ago)...

Anyway, today I stopped by a friends joinery shop, he handed me some yew wood which looked interesting Attachment : 20230418_150428.jpg I took the piece on the left and trimmed it down, the...

@nsj Who do you think I am, Arnold Schwarzenegger? 😂 I’ll have to do a bit of weight training before I attempt to carve that? I may use the oak barrel when I get it dry and flat enough. It wil...

I just couldn’t resist. I got a few off-cuts of wooden, laminated worktop off my brother-in-law and I just had to make a body blank (I just needed a fix 😬). It’s thin stuff for a worktop (abou...

Well, you can’t complain at that for a tenner can you really. These are the types of bargains that everyone should look out for and use for practicing repainting. Get the paint cans out and spray some...

I think that looks really good - lovely piece of timber for the board, and the dots are super-neat!

@tv101 Good to see another build underway. A nice warm-summer project (when you're not at the caravan!). I'm at the caravan now, but I've not been idle. Started to make the molds for forming the si...

Got the holes drilled correctly this time and first thin coat of finish on, tomorrow I'll sand back taking out little marks that I missed before. Attachment : 20230406_142135.jpg Attachmen...

Well neck is glued in, drilled the bridge holes today. For some reason I only used my blind spot when measuring for the tail piece and put it of to one side by 1 or 2mm lol. Anyway plugged now, I'll r...

Some time ago I was asked to build a Tele style for a friend of a friend. He wanted specific natural wood body finish and C profile neck. It was all new to me so I asked him to buy all the hardware. T...

Today I got the cavity to final depth and made a cover out of the oak. Also got the headstock shaped and drilled. Next up sanding then I can glue in the neck. Attachment : 20230403_195943.jpg ...

Really nice work @koendb. 🎸🙂🎶🙏

this week I worked a bit on the back of the bridge (pear wood ) Attachment : 14DDC44D-FF56-4FF3-A0B8-7D94F54BB6CD.jpeg Attachment : E835A4DF-7BFA-4C32-B4D4-F4E5FEF12AC8.jpeg Attachme...

Great piece of ingenuity there @robin. What did you use for the metal struts? 🎸🙂🎶🙏

@russ I was just speaking to a young woman yesterday who is building an acoustic guitar completely out of mahogany, including the sound board. I had thought about making a sound board from mahogan...

@nsj Lick it? I’m trying to wring it out and bottle it. 🤣

@boo well lick it lad 🤣

I couldn’t resist, I just had to see what these staves would come up like. 😁 Attachment : 2A877A0F-4FEC-4B2A-9C8E-8E65F2AEF985.jpeg Attachment : B4286B96-2D78-4801-9F8B-B5D51E552E2D...

All sorted, Brazillian mahogany with ash strip neck and body. Oak top, oak plate on headstock. Gotoh hardware and warman pickups, hot lil devil set. Piece of elm burl for the trussrod cover. Plays n...