Being a bass player That's OK - you're among friends here, you can admit things like that ? (actually, I've got a bass somewhere too!)

Being a bass player I've made several basses at home. This one is one with a swamp ash body, redwood top, maple neck and a rosewood fretboard. Attachment : image.png It has Seymour Duncan STKJ2...

Also, how to build your own - perfectly suitable but nothing fancy-pants - bench for building guitars and general “working”? Quick comment on that one @rashdown_online ... my set-up bench is an old o...

How to achieve a “space” for the least amount of essential Tools (both hand and power) including a bench (and what bench to get/build). Unfortunately, people like me don’t have a garage not a proper s...

It's the 'Gnat's Knackers'

Posted by: @ You'd need the Optivisor to see those Bee's Bollocks. ??

but your edited videos really are The Dog's Bollocks and The Bee's Knees Are you sure that's not the Bee's Bollocks and Dog's Knees @Russ??

@russ Glad you are enjoying the courses - We'll find a balance between the live and edited stuff...but it is all good fun - thanks to your support and the others hopefully much more to come!!

@markbailey I’m not sure whether you have covered this but I want to install pickups (humbuckers) into a body with no pickup rings (direct mounted). I know people use wood screws but I don’t like that...

Some of the multicoloured ones look pretty awesome actually! I like the “grain” pattern that shows on some of the “example machined” images @darrenking. Knowing nothing about Richlite, I’m guessing t...

I hope to have some of this stuff on my new website but in the meantime you can get it from a company called Surface Matter in London. Some of the multicoloured ones look pretty awesome actually! Link...

With ebony now also on the verge of protection what will we do for black fingerboards? We will either have to used a dyed species or, another alternative, is a man-made material called Richlite which ...

@tv1010101 @darrenking I envisage a pub-meet where some beers are bought (maybe Knobies Nuts, too) and @darrenking accidentally leaves some Rio behind after several drinks (and an untouched bank bal...

Commercially, the rosewood is now of absolutely no value at all as I can't legally sell it, barter it, swap it for 'favours' or anything else. Oh no! That's terrible @darrenking. I'll have a think - ...

@rashdown_online It's me that the has the secret stash of Rio Rosewood!! My uncle bought two entire logs of the stuff in the 1970's from a timber yard on the North Circular in London. In the 1980's he...

This (last) one *is* Brazilian ... Attachment : IMG_0311.JPG Attachment : IMG_0322.JPG Attachment : IMG_0324.JPG Attachment : IMG_0328.JPG

And another different one ... Attachment : P1020645.JPG Attachment : P1020633.JPG

This one is a different type of RW, different origin Attachment : DSC_3621.JPG Attachment : DSC_3627.JPG Attachment : DSC_3605.JPG

@tv1010101 That be lovely!!! Thanks for sharing.

I'll post some pics tomorrow of some RW necks that I've got on some guitars as an illustration. Here you go ... some Rosewood necks. As said above, there are plenty of variations of Rosewood, and ple...