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RE: Bosch Colt palm Router, anyone using this? @nsj I'll check that one out, thankyou. Greatly appreciate you coming back to me to share your experience. Bit of a mind field out there especially you tube reviews |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
2 weeks ago |
RE: Bosch Colt palm Router, anyone using this? @andyorton2gmail-com It's a fine router, smooth etc. I mainly use it for the truss rod channel. I find the palm routers much easier to handle for everything else. Stick a bigger base on them to mak... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
2 weeks ago |
RE: Bosch Colt palm Router, anyone using this? I haven't used this one myself, Andrew but I know a couple of people who have and they're more than happy with it. 🙏🎵🎸🙂 |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
2 weeks ago |
RE: Bosch Colt palm Router, anyone using this? @russ thanks Russ In your opinion what's your take on the bosch POF 1200 ? |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
2 weeks ago |
RE: Bosch Colt palm Router, anyone using this? @andyorton2gmail-com Hi Andrew, In the UK the Bosch GKF600 is the same as the Colt. It is a great wee router but there are cheaper alternatives out there. One of the advantages of this router and the... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
3 weeks ago |
Bosch Colt palm Router, anyone using this? Hi everyone, subjective as it might be, I was wondering if anyone in the forum jas had any experience using this colt router for guitar builds. Looking at my first router and I'm seeing that this plu... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
3 weeks ago |
RE: Latest build @brie Here's a couple, basically mounted like a regular 2 point trem, then I added a recess and then cut the back end away so there was no restriction. Nice brass block to finish off the look. A... |
In forum Electric |
2 weeks ago |
RE: Hello everyone, newbie member - Andy @andyorton2gmail-com Welcome to the playground Andrew. Hope you have Fun. There are people out there that would sell you a 24" premade fretboard. If you are planning to make one yourself you can mark ... |
In forum New Members |
3 weeks ago |
RE: Hello everyone, newbie member - Andy @liebe awesome thankyou, I quite like shorter more compact feel guitars, I'm guessing the lighter and slightly shorter length guitars are appealing more to me now, been toying with 24.75 gibson scale ... |
In forum New Members |
3 weeks ago |
RE: Hello everyone, newbie member - Andy Hey Andy, if you have a fretboard or neck in the scale that you want and/or that you're going to use in your build you certainly can use that in your drawing to map out the position of the frets. I wo... |
In forum New Members |
3 weeks ago |
RE: Hello everyone, newbie member - Andy @liebe thankyou for the warm welcome I'm watching marks video on using an existing neck to measure out the scale length, if I was to create a 25 inch scale, can I use a neck from a standard strat sca... |
In forum New Members |
3 weeks ago |
RE: Hello everyone, newbie member - Andy Welcome Andy! The online electric build course is set around building a 25" scale, but if you've got some experience you might well be able to adapt the plan. I'm sure there are other members who've ... |
In forum New Members |
3 weeks ago |
RE: Hello everyone, newbie member - Andy Sorry forgot to mention, I'm based in Wolverhampton. Tele build with 24 inch scale inspired by shorter scale similar to suregold |
In forum New Members |
3 weeks ago |
Latest build Friend asked me to build him a guitar, he sent the wood. Pale moon ebony and mahogany. Originally a prs, then a superstrat and finally he sent me a pic and said this please lol. Anyway stranberg boden... |
In forum Electric |
3 weeks ago |
RE: Rattly truss rod @nsj Thanks, I thought it was probably either not an issue or recoverable, but needed a bit of assurance before I started removing more wood. As for the hairline glues lines at the fingerboard edge I'... |
3 weeks ago | |
RE: Rattly truss rod It'll be fine, if it still rattles after set up just drill out a marker near the middle, take all tension off the rod and glue in a dowel clamping till the glue dries. Then fit a new marker. I used t... |
3 weeks ago | |
Rattly truss rod So I finally got to glue the fingerboard on to my neck, and when I took the clamps off I found two problems (well three if you count the amount a glue I need to clean up, unfortunately I had to catch ... |
4 weeks ago | |
Maltese cross guitar Attachment : 20250628_123749.jpg Attachment : 20250628_123735.jpg Attachment : 20250628_123743.jpg This Maltese cross shaped guitar (a nod to Ian Hunter's of Mott the Hoople) was a b... |
In forum Electric |
4 weeks ago |
RE: Single Cut Makeover Nice work! |
In forum Electric |
1 month ago |
Tele type thing completed! If you think you have seen it or something like it before you probably have. Built similar guitar for a friend last year that worked out so well I just had to do one for myself. It took a while due to... |
In forum Electric |
1 month ago |