Are kill switches becoming 'a thing' ? I may be able to corner the martket!

Hi Boo, If you email me your address I'll send you a couple of little stainless kill switches. I've got hundreds of them! Darren Attachment : IMG_1558.JPG

Hi Cigarboxguy, Middle men always profit from being in the middle and by doing something that adds value to whatever it is that they buy and sell. In this case converting bloody great big lumps of tre...

@tv101 Very droll! It's not so much the banging, its the driving all those little wedges in with no way of countering the force they collectively apply. I might try squishing the tang a little with a...

Here's a problem that I've been fretting over (boom, boom, see what I did there?) Has anyone ever resorted to simply gluing in frets? I ask because the neck of my Petite Bouche doesn't have a truss ro...

Dr who has got the perfect guitar makers workshop! Unfortunately in real life, the physics tends to work the opposite way around!

Hi Pete (et al), I would just like to put in a word for the acoustic guitar here as I feel it is being somewhat maligned as a possible home build project. I came to all this from completely the opposi...

You will be having a lot of other problems if this ends up being an issue. I'd work on the assumption that the fretboard will never have to come off, but just send a quick forum post if it does!

This is what Preston Reed and Jon Gomm look like on stage when their bands forget their invis suits!!

The trick when shaping an infill piece such as this is not to try making it the exact size of the divit. Shape the end of a larger piece, which will make it easier to handle (and shape), and then you ...

Hi James, You could always just glue a small piece of maple back into the hollow. If you get the shape right it should be pretty difficult to see once it's sanded. Admittedly, light coloured woods are...

@tv101 Don’t! It’s not funny! I’ve normally swum about 300km by this point in the year. 2020 total is currently 120km. On the plus side by buoyancy is up!

@jamesalexandermcmillan It might not be easy but could you leave the fretless section very slightly raised to match the height of the frets? I don’t really know why @tv101 brought this up but obs, the...

Hi Boo, I think your very act of congratulation has reprojected you to the top on goal difference!

That's the symbol for a diode so this is for checking whether current flows through a component in a particular direction. I guess you could use it as a means of checking continuity but it's not ideal...

Hi Mentosik, Leave the black probe where it is but plug (There's a bingo card shout!) the red probe into the bottom socket on the multimeter and turn the dial around to '200' on the ohms Ω scale at al...

@jamesbisset I like eating teacakes! Where do I fit in?

Hi Likeakite, That sounds a bit like putting off having children until you have complete financial security, the house is paid off and school fee investment plans are about to mature! Take the plunge ...

Hi Mick, The 100w bulb might theoretically get the pipe hot enough to bend wood but the problem will be how quickly it cools down once you put a full width 2mm-2.5mm thick guitar side against it. You ...

If you want more of a shine to the finish then I am not sure that mechanical buffing of the oil finish is going to achieve that. An oil finish will alway have a sheen rather than a shine but if you wa...