The 'mended' amp can be your workshop amp - use it for testing new guitars and paly music while you build... I have a Micro Cube in my workshop - it is connected to a Jensen 10" speaker as the stock R...

What was a Gibson master craftsman doing at Tonetech's shop??? It’s complicated. Suffice to say, in the end I removed to the south west of Scotland. Least said, soonest mended.

Awesome. Do you carve necks with an axe @jamesbisset that’s extremely manly... seriously I saw a demonstration of a guy doing exactly that at Tonetech’s shop What was a Gibson master craftsman doing ...

Me too! Good old Nobex!! I bought mine to make some picture frames for an artist in Dunfermline when I was in my late teens. It seemed like a lot of money at the time (£65 from memory - probably get o...

I tried some simple modellers - some of the Zoom stuff - they sounded brill on full on distortion or lovely clean but couldn’t do the bits between - the bit where an amp just starts to break up and th...

As I read down that list, I was getting more and more worried that it missed a critical - no, *the* critical - aspect of guitar design. But it was leaving the best 'til last. *COLOUR* 😉

Interestingly, when I type "finniting", auto-correct intervenes and assumes that i mean finessing. I think my next project might involve some fairly major finniting.

Thanks everyone for the tips and pointers and will take it all into consideration. Gonna give it a go today.

@marcel It is the step of double checking all over for any imperfections that needs addressing before finishing

Ok you lot have convinced me that I should invest in a multimeter. Doesn’t know how to use it but it’s time learn. Thanks.

I think it’s time I own a multimeter. I bought one for guitar-assembly use, long before I understood all of its other potential uses. It encouraged me to learn a bit more about electronics!

@tv1010101 I missed that one. Did not wake up in time. Shucks. Just saw the stream. I think it’s time I own a multimeter.

You can get a pretty good one on Amazon for less than £20 and if you are getting involved with anything electrical it’ll change you life!

@darrenking Yes, wish I had a multimeter. My birthday coming up in a few weeks. Hmmm.

I guess anything with an applied surface colour or lacquer is going to benefit from being abraded where the grounding wire contacts. If you don't have on then cheap multimeter could be a great Christ...

Selling my first Stingray gave me a good excuse to make another one. It has an alder body, birdseye maple neck, ziricote fretboard and a quite spectacular maple top. It has burl, spalt and many colors...

@johnnierox-boo Thank you, I never could have dreamt that just doing in my little shed what I enjoy doing could ever inspire someone else.

Exquisite work as usual @marcel. My energy is building to plan a bass build, it’s because of you my friend! Rock n Roll!

@darrenking Thank you, I always try to use nice looking wood. A flamed maple top is not something very special, but you hardly ever see them on the 'standard' models like Jazz basses or Stingrays.

Hi Marcel, your guitars really do have beautiful lines and make exceptional use of some spectacular wood. Gorgeous!