Hey Boo,
Just wait until you move to Scotland and the midge season arrives!!🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟 Or clefs, they’re also really lovely!! Then you will truely know what hell on earth feels like!!😂😂😂

Thank you @koendb and @boo for your comments. Being complimented by your peers is the highest form of appreciation there is. Thanks guys. And Boo, when you make the jump to properly hollow, I’ll do anything I can to assist.Cheers…   Read more»

Drum roll…………. Hey, it’s got strings on!! After a huge delay in my extracting the necessary digit I have actually finished my Maccaferri Petite Bouche! No excuses, I just kept finding reasons not to spend the time buggering around shortening…   Read more»

Hi @c-cap, Welcome to the best guitar making forum in the WORLD!!!! I agree with @koendb in that the tricky bit would have been making the compound radius fretboard in the first place. As this has been done for you…   Read more»

Hi Bill, I have never had to remove a bridge but, if I did, I absolutely agree with @rocknroller912. If there is no reason to reuse the existing bridge then planing or routing it off will do far less damage…   Read more»

Hi @boo
What size nozzle do you have on your spray gun for clear lacquer?
Cheers
Darren

Mark made it

Oooops! No offence meant Mark!

some advice

Hi Steve,
I think you should get a new truss rod. I’ve never seen an angle like that on any that I have bought. Looks buggered to me 
Cheers
Darren

Thanks Cheesewhisk, it’s on its way!
Cheers
Darren

I think the issue really is down to the wonky fretboard alignment so the neck ended up slimmer than it should have been. The beauty of the jig is that this wouldn’t matter. You don’t machine the body until your…   Read more»

Hi Cheeswhisk, You need one of these! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234088928974 Shortly to be available from GMUK but can be ordered from me and I will credit M&C with their margin on the sale. Just make sure you let me know that you…   Read more»

The diagrams assume the person doing the soldering is familiar with the common practice in guitar wiring of soldering the terminal directly to the body to earth it

Well I am now!😂😂

Ha! I’ve cracked it! In the original diagram I didn’t realise that the right hand terminal on the volume pot was also connected to earth, it just looked like it was missing (and therefore not being used). I guess that…   Read more»

Hi gang! It seems like a long time ago now, but I did complete this build but there is something odd with the electronics. I have followed the diagram sent by Jonathan (I’ll get back to you about the plywood…   Read more»

under an umbrella of wishes and hope

But is it enough to protect you from a shit storm of mistakes and disasters ?!!

Hi gang, I saw the Noisettes at the Cambridge Corn Exchange a good many years ago now. It was the most surprisingly amazing gig I’ve ever seen my exposure to them up until that point largely being through advertising usage…   Read more»

Well it’s not a Bank Holiday weekend so it might even be sunny!

Here are two very different versions of the same brilliant song, one an instrumental by the amazing Jon Gomm, and the other, by a real local favourite of mine, Roxy Searle. It would be amazing to hear Roxy sing over…   Read more»

Nice!!
I bet Mark has tried this with Carol’s coffee table at some stage!! 🤣 🤣 🤣