One more comment before I take a deep breath and move my drawings to the Design Your Own Guitar section. I’ve now read the Jim English ’Making a Laminated HollowBody Electric Guitar’ book and, with the greatest respect to Jim…   Read more»

Posted by: @frocesterbill They may well be aluminium (or an alloy containing aluminium) the gold on my first Bailey workshop build has worn off a bit but it was all I played for two years…..They do them in black…….. Just…   Read more»

Good discussion point actually. The success of the Gibson Juniors in a rock context was usually put down to the simple wraparound bridge bolted to a slab of mahogany. That was my starting point. It’s simple and it works. But…   Read more»

@frocesterbill Thanks Bill. I do think that KISS is always a good principle. I’m just struggling to work out what I’ll actually be buying. Zinc? Aloominum? I do fancy a black bridge though. I reckon all the pretentious tonal analysis…   Read more»

I’ve been tweaking the design, and researching the hardware. The Wilkinson wraparound seems to come in different metals and prices depending where you look – £25 for zinc according to axesrus.com but £40 for aluminium according to JHS. A Schaller…   Read more»

@markbailey This might upset you: But yes, I see your point. And the p/u switch via the neck p/u opening? I scaled the ƒ holes while scaling down the Yamaha sketch. I might have to restore to original size.

The Yamaha AES 1500 has a body length of 535mm and lower bout width of 430mm, so I’ve scaled that down to match the dimensions of a poor abused Vox Tornado which I bought for £40 in Africa a lifetime ago….   Read more»