@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...

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 ...

Sorry forgot to mention, I'm based in Wolverhampton. Tele build with 24 inch scale inspired by shorter scale similar to suregold

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...

@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'...

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...

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 ...

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...

Nice work!

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...

To avoid breakout I no longer route the headstock profile and use the method described by Brian here... I think I would try sanding/scraping the top face of the neck to remove the marks left by the co...

@markbailey It depends on how big your rod is, it could be a struggle to get it into a slot sometimes. ✊😆 Sorry, that was very childish.

Hey Jonathan - That's normal. We normally push it as far back as it will go (towards the body end). This way it cannot slide back any further so could only potentially move forwards but - it won't mov...

I was just in the process of prepping to fix the trussrod in and I noticed that I seem to have wound up in a situation where there is nothing to stop the truss rod from sliding backwards and forward i...

Failure 2, somehow when I was trying to route the deeper part of the neck sides (longer than my cutter so I had to take the template off) I managed to set things so the collet wound up rubbing. I knew...

Hi @jonhodgson Love seeing progress photos and the story behind them. I wish I had access to the range of tools you have! As someone that's had chipout and had the collet robbing issue before, I fee...

So now we get to the night I'm starting these posts, I went in to the hackspace thinking I would have a whole evening to myself to work on the guitar, no shop projects, no hackspace system admin, no i...

Attachment : headstock angle.webp For a couple of reasons I took a slice off the top of the neck blank, then flattened it again using the planer. When it came to routing the headstock angle Mark's...

Attachment : templates.webp So, in the Hackspace we have a large format laser cutter, so I used that to cut some templates. We also have a Denford CNC converted to LinuxCNC (guess which muggins go...

Attachment : Fretslots.webp I think you may recognize the jig. This was the first day of the London Craft Festival, and I had spent the whole day talking to people trying to convince them to join ...