@hursty Hey Hursty, welcome to the forum and congrats on buying your first Bailey Bandsman guitar kit. You will find loads of help here in the forum so whenever you run into problems or concerns, just...

Cheers Boo 👍

I've no experience of wood working at all so this could be a disaster or a new love. I was there, many years ago. When you say "no" experience - I did have experience of wood working, but all of it h...

Hi all, After much pondering I took the plunge and became a premium member and ordered a standard Bandsman kit. 😀 I've no experience of wood working at all so this could be a disaster or a ne...

Great to see you getting started @tej. Looking forward to seeing your progress. Remember to measure twice & cut once. 📏📏🪚 🙏🙂🎶🎸

So, there we are for now, I’ll add more as I progress and post a full build video at the end 🙂 @tej Yep, you’re really getting it together now, looking good. It’s exciting watching people d...

So here goes, first ever guitar build, this is likely to be slow going, if I start to progress quickly at any point remind me I should sleep 🙂 Here’s the design so far, a 25.5” scale length Ba...

The points don’t really matter Well, that's easy for you to say ...

@boo oh yeah, you should chat with my sister, wrong forum @mattbeels ....

Wow! Thanks guys. I’m just happy this forum is way it is. The points don’t really matter but the content does so all I try to do is upload decent content myself and encourage others to do the same. We...

@cheesewhisk One tip I learned for handling small parts like dots, when doing jewellery making classes, is to use blue tack or similar for holding. My method now is small stick or dowel, blue tack, do...

It could be you have Indian ebony, which is similar to Indian rosewood on the Janka hardness scale, but it's very much the exception. I haven't tried working the Sundari yet, but in terms of appearanc...

@boo It could be you have Indian ebony, which is similar to Indian rosewood on the Janka hardness scale, but it's very much the exception. I haven't tried working the Sundari yet, but in terms of appe...

I've always thought of Ebony as being quite a hard wood @tv101 Yeah it is a hardwood but to me it feels quite soft and spongy when routing, I don’t know why, maybe it’s just me? Maybe it’s more britt...

Saying that, I'm loathe to use ebony because they are such an endangered species (the growth rate of the hard heartwood is incredibly slow) so if I want the ebony look I'll try Rocklite Ebano first. I...

Ebony is quite soft though, it can chip very easily I've always thought of Ebony as being quite a hard wood @Boo? Hence the susceptibility to chipping?

I know not all wood is equal but would practising on say the off cuts of the mahogany neck be worth using? I don't have any spare rosewood lying around. I'd not dismiss having a go at that inlay on t...

Sounds sane to me, I know not all wood is equal but would practising on say the off cuts of the mahogany neck be worth using? I don't have any spare rosewood lying around. @cheesewhisk Yeah, I would ...

If you want to do fancy inlays, ebony is probably a better choice than rosewood, the bits you have to fill won't be as visible.

I've got a dremel router base but no template, I do have some carving tools. I'm close to bottling it tbh but I would like to at least attempt something. I know Mark says keep it simple but always say...