Thank you for having me. I'm 50 some years old and have loved guitars since I can remember. I have owned about 12 of them threw out my life, but the sad thing is....... I never learned to play them b...

Hi all and Happy New Year! I’m back and hope to post again about builds…… I did a third workshop course in 2022 and since then haven’t done any building…… Three of us did the 2022 course, the previous...

Attachment : 63927159790__E6727B6D-B7A1-4BA5-AA63-1F4A0755A022.jpeg It has been an awesome journey ever since I signed up for this online guitar building course. Thank you Mark and Carol and the f...

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@liebe Hey Dan This is Carol now on Marks page 😉 NO offence taken at all - we know we have been absent, and it is shame indeed ... BUT we are finally making our way back up to where we were ... and ...

@rathius Hi Rathius and happy new year to you. You really shouldn't be seeing this kind of failure if the veneers are bonded properly in the first place and it suggests to me that they haven't been pr...

Hi @teesee, I'm not an expert on spraying or the pluses and minuses if different types of lacquer. Wish I was! On my last builds I used a brush on melamine lacquer I had decent results with and it wa...

@liebe Yeah, I figured it might be problematic on top of wax oil but I've a few spare water slide decals I made up for a previous guitar so I'll give your suggestion a try. I've got to take Mrs Tesee ...

Hi All, first post on here. I've a Yamaha BB4 NF4iii - what a mouthful! 😝 I bought it from Ebay a few years ago and it was the natural lacquered finish but was dinged up and scratched in plac...

Very happy with this. Chambered Tele-ish thing for a friend. Nice Ovankol top from Mark & Carol. Attachment : IMG_1975.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1976.jpeg

Test on scrap!!! @clinton You know how Mark always says test on scrap? Well, I've just tested some candy paints over metal flake on this scrap body. I burst some black candy around the edges first ...

Here’s my #2. It’s a mustang style with 3 jaguar pickups. Has a 5 way rotary encoder instead of a blade switch. 25.5” scale, and I think I’m gonna keep building at that scale. Pickups were hand wound ...

@brie Very handy, thanks Brian!

@nsj you utter hero, this is music (no pun intended) to my ears! For some reason I thought both walnut and cherry would be heavier. Knowing the kind of weight bracket they're in I'll definitely give ...

@liebe walnut is nice, not to heavy, same with cherry. Made a full start entirely from cherry. Both lighter than limba or at least black limba, posibbly similar to the likes of brazillian mahogany. Yo...

Nice one, Cheers @nsj How do walnut and cherry work out weight wise in comparison to say khaya mahogany or limba? I get that it can depend on the blank, but interested in your thoughts. I've kinda a...

I've used beech, ash, oak, cherry and walnut so far. All been really good. Only tricky one is oak because I did a carve top and it's very hard lol

So a friend asked about me building him an electic ukelele, I think you can tell by the pics I like super strats lol Sapele body and neck, ebony fretboard, yew and resin top. Went with a 17 inch sca...

In the meantime, I finished the rosette, turned the tuning pegs and fitted them to the pegbox. I also carved the lower inside of the pegbox for better string access Attachment : 5A018EEA-CAED-4218...

Attachment : IMG_6893.jpeg Purple Mustang is finally dry, so I’ve been assembling and finally got down to electronics and I realized I ran my pickup wires through the mounting holes… so now I need...