Hi Mark, I noticed that the lacquered body and neck that you picked up at one point when discussing intonation didn't have the bridge area masked off. Do you glue the bridge on top of the lacquer (if ...

Hi Bill, try looking up Milliput. It's a two part epoxy putty that cures very hard and is often used for exactly what you are trying to do. Available in a limited number of colours black/white/terraco...

HI folks, Well, what an extraordinarily strange and screwed up world we are all now living in! Firstly, I hope that nobody on here is facing the worst that this crisis has to offer and that we can all...

Hi all, Here's a question. When you see a guitar that has incorporates apparently completely unsuitable material as a soundboard does it indicate that is designed to be used, almost exclusively, as a ...

Hi Bill, Naptha seems to be the fraction of crude oil that distills immediately prior to petroleum. There seem to be multiple sources on eBay and Fiddes do a naptha thinners which may be of interest. ...

Hi Bill, I think you would need to check with Mark on that and I'm not sure whether he has had a chance to press a front or back yet. I do know that Mark is very keen to get a course of this style of ...

With dreams of future mass production(!!!) I am going to make a pair of Maccaferri moulds out of layers of MDF so that they can be used with silicone heater pads. Using the UF resin means that I can h...

Hi Bill, Have you got links to the YouTube videos and pics of the parts you are using? Cheers Darren

@md54 Birdseye veneer is mostly rotary cut and occasionally crown of or flat cut I believe. Cutting it on the quarter would result in much narrower leaves, which would reduce the value, and so it is r...

Ok, I picked up the veneers yesterday and have trimmed them and edge glued them into oversize sheets with the maple being long grain and the poplar cross grain. I have also put them through the wide b...

Hi there, It has been a while since I made any further progress with this one but here are some photos of the birds eye maple Maccaferri Concert model. It has had a couple of coats of lacquer but it s...

Hi md54, Quarter cut is as per an acoustic guitar sound board ie the grain runs at close to 90° to the surface. This cut typically displays lots of straight, closely spaced growth rings on the face. F...

Hi, Ok, so I can get quarter cut 1.5mm tulipwood (poplar by any other name) and 1.5mm maple in either crown cut or quarter cut. Most of the images online suggest that the face veneer is crown cut, wh...

Hi MD54 (Snappy name, I like it!) and welcome to the club! I love the Sorrento, there is some beautifully elegant about the simplicity of it design and lines especially the single pick-up without the ...

Hi James, Your options with an 80mm diameter blade are going to be very limited and you are unlikely to find any commercially available table saw that will take this blade and give you a sufficient de...

Hi there and Happy new year to one and all! It already seems like a long time ago! Now, how is this for frustrating? I have just had a delivery from my favourite engineering company containing the ma...

The hi-tech methods are often the best! Have a great new year sticking on your X braces! Darren

I should add that these images are pre-sanding

I have had a further thought about the construction of these double tops and that was that if I incorporated a narrow cross grain section down the centre line this would reinforce the central joint in...