Hi @stephen-hayes, Welcome to the best guitar making resource in the world! And don't worry, in the field of guitar making related woodworking questions there is no such thing as stupid! Have fun Darr...

@tv101 mine is bigger than yours!🤣🤣

Hi James, take it off and start again. You’ll spend more time trying to compensate all the other parts than if you just strip the fretboard off and glue another one on in the right place. Going with a...

Hi TV, I just can’t believe that you are 40! What moisturiser do you use? Many happies Darren

Hi Siddharth Have fun, ask loads of questions and post lots of pics. You’ll find everyone really helpful and supportive. Darren

Just stop messing around and stick some bl**dy strings on it Boo!! Cheers Darren

Having lost my father in March and my 31 year old nephew in September, 2022 threw in one last awful event on the 23rd of December when a greatly admired, and much loved friend died of a massive stroke...

With that hammer, I’m not sure that you’d even need to cut slots!!

Happy new year all! Hi NSJ, embers will become very cold very quickly in a vacuum as there will be no oxygen to sustain combustion but I guess you are effectively talking about placing the evacuated ...

@tv101 from after he stopped being funny!!

I’ll try I post an Excel spreadsheet that I made that works out the radius of a curve from the chord and the deviation at the centre point. It can easily be played with to work out how deep inlays nee...

Aww schucks guys, you're making me 😊 😊 😊 Funnily enough, I have just been running a new batch of slotting jigs and templates and have now expanded the range of templates to inc...

@tv101 I recognise those inserts!!

That's been ordered! Thanks TV!

@boo living the dream boo!! I’m jealous!! Darren

@seanwhcraig Hi Sean, I have an 8’ x 4’ CNC router with a 360 m3 per hour vacuum pump hooked up to the hold down table. However, when machining such relatively small components as guitar necks or head...

@boo give me July 2021 over August 2022 every time!! We didn’t know we were lucky!!

Hi Sean, I run a business called Bagpress and we specialise in vacuum pressing and associated technology. If you can give me a bit more information about what you are trying to achieve, I’m happy to o...