Hi Rocknroller, About 75% of my turnover is from subcontract manufacturing of vacuum pressed and veneered panels and products. Everything from kitchen cupboard doors, reception desks, achitectural column casings, the plywood feet that go on the bottom of hardcore compactors,…   Read more»

If they are still available I highly rate this DeWalt for other reason than the dust extraction is excellent. The dust gets sucked up through one of the plunge tubes so you extractor connects to the top of the router…   Read more»

Boom boom!!

My first acoustic was in ziracote and that looks ok lacquered.

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Thanks Russ, Will do!

My first ‘deeply in love with’ girlfriend, at the age of 14, was named Lucy. She is also an amazing guitarist. Serendipity? Maybe this time she will be mine!
Darren

BTW
using finishes with different levels of porosity/evaporation rates on different parts of the guitar is a bad idea I think as this will contribute to exaggerated contrasting rates of expansion/contraction in the bits of woodwork connected to one another. 

Hi Robin, any finish that soaks in to the wood is going to darken it but you should always find that this enhances all of the grain rather than detracting from it. I cant think of any wood that looks…   Read more»

Didn’t want you to have to count @darrenking … Thanks TV10101! The next time I’m looking for a PA I’ll make sure to ask you for a CV! Of course, if PJ had been featured that would probably have been…   Read more»

OOC what’s the advantage of Ju Jitsu Meat over Zoom?

@frocesterbill Wasn’t meant to be sexist at all, I have a Tele that I love myself, it was just notable that almost every act that was featured had a band member with Tele hanging around her neck. I’ll try to…   Read more»

@frocesterbill There was a ‘Female rock at the BBC’ program on last week and probably 80% of all the ladies were playing Teles. Why does this guitar appeal to the girls over all others?

@jamesbisset The SE30! I was working at an AppleCentre in London when that machine was launched. We thought computing had reached its pinnacle! I mean, it came with a 40Mb hard drive and (I think) 4mb of RAM as standard…   Read more»

The internal radius on all corners is 5mm

Mr Hiscox was/is a guitar maker himself so he may well have a bit of a soft spot for independent makers. I wrote to him as a teenager and this is one of his guitars that was sold as part…   Read more»

Well they gave me reseller pricing when buying a single case. They are very keen to sell to guitar makers and don’t expect you to be buying 10 or 20 at a time. Speak to them, they were very accommodating…   Read more»

Why not just set up a reseller account with Hiscox and sell all your guitars with a case? Solves the packaging issue, you will make an extra few quid on the sale and your client doesn’t’t have to find a…   Read more»

This is going to sound bloody obvious but can’t you send it up in a guitar case (if you have one that it fits that is) and then simply pay to have the case sent back to you empty afterwards?…   Read more»

What about:
The Pick Up Joint (might need to recruit more female members for that to be a vote winner!)
The Tremolo Bar