@johnnierox-boo Thanks. It is far away from perfect. I learn from the YouTube videos and now Marc's videos and materials online I wish one day I have time to participate in couple of days workshop wit...

I would vote for Archtop, 17 inch Bendetto style guitar

I love how forgiving walnut is to work with. I love the colours and grain patterns that you can find. I've seen almost pink through to dark brown. I've got a few bits of walnut in the workshop ... j...

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Thanks guys, When my new website goes live (4 weeks?) there will be a section devoted to instrument making and offering services for custom making internal/external moulds and templates etc to custome...

Great one today ....keep em coming! Nice to see that you managed to make one @david-johnson09 ?

But Mark needs the views/viewers on YouTube, 5000 subscriber for the amazing Mark & Carol doesn't make me happy at all. 100,000 maybe I can partially smile then. I think you have to keep in mind ...

I don’t think I’d come across that site before. Thanks @david-johnson09

@petersoyanov You can buy Nitrocellulose lacquers, paints and stains from They are based in Spain and they ship internationally at very good rates. Pretty good prices, excellent products and availabl...

StewMac is the best but for us in the UK and anywhere else in the world, we have to pay all of those extra charges. There are some good specialist luthier/guitar builders shops in the UK, which I’ll g...

@david-johnson09 Thank you deej / David, the tool is great and the site seems great and I didn't know about it. Will order one of those to see how things are going, 1.5 mm would do ...cheers!

^^^ First photo of my first build, completed, sitting on a chair in M&C's living room. I probably had a smile on my face at the time. And for a few days afterwards. Few more pics, with some bet...

Guitar builders are a very small and often forgotten minority group in great danger of extinction.

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@tv1010101 thank you very much! I thoroughly enjoyed the process and fully intend on doing it again. I do have a shed in the garden but it's so full of stuff I can't really do any work in there We're ...

Cool AS!

Wooden scratchplate...BOOM. @markbailey ... I did the BOOM last time 😉 Fancied trying something different this time around!

Wooden scratchplate...BOOM.

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