Hi I'm a newbie to this new site and I'm also new to the making of guitars. This course was a birthday gift from my wife and it's been a brilliant present. Mark says you need a bandsaw, so I now have ...

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Oh yeah.... specs...... Mahogany body Purpleheart neck (I absotively love purpleheart....) Wilkinson tuners and bridge Tonerider AC2 pickups with coil-split Crimson Guitar Finishing Oil finish I will ...

The first guitar I ever built..... And not the last, because this one started it all! The year: 2006 The place: Mark's shop in the Maybole area The guitar: Attachment : 20180929_092837.jpg A...

Overall, it looks stunning, from a distance. The back and sides are like a mirror and so is the front apart from the contaminated areas. I think I will have to do the front again, if I want it to be ...

Cheers Herb - I know that feeling very well ? but one thing I have learnt over the years is that there is always something you can do... That's what I'm here for!

The originals are made from Hornbeam I use maple - offcuts from neck blanks I still have the first two I made about 20 (OMG) years ago still going strong! Since then I've made about 12 but nowadays I ...

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I am making a bolt on neck guitar using a lot of same techniques that I learned from doing Mark Bailey’s online Design your own Guitar and Build your own Guitar courses. I took the measurements from a...