Thanks Bill. 🙂 I used the guitar for a full gig at PrestFest 2024 on Sunday (where Bill saw me) and then up to Glasgow for Sammy’s Open Mic at the Glad Cafe. It certainly does a lot of the stuff I pla...

The back is on, the neck is in, the finish applied, the bridge fitted. Now it’s time to tackle the wiring. Attachment : IMG_0366.jpeg To make sure I didn’t make any wires too short, or too long...

Thanks to @russ and @nsj. The Waterslide Guitars Instagram feed reveals that the pickups are Mojo pickups, handmade in the UK. and yes, they’re magnetic. Must admit, now that I’ve found them, I’m qui...

Wow! Well done that man! The web site is impressively uninformative but I’m going to assume that the pickups are traditional magnetic pickups in a funky retro cover. I should probably be following the...

Attachment : Screenshot 2024-07-15 at 13.37.17.png This is the guitarist in Sabrina Carpenter’s band playing Please Please Please on BBC Live (Youtube video). Given the convention of not naming t...

@russ I’d love to know what makes Easy French Polish easy. Longer curing time? Thicker solution? I came across a video on traditional FP techniques by The Art Of Lutherie which said to use a wet pad t...

Work on the laminated semi-hollowbody continues. Following @tv101 ’s lead I’ve been applying Liberon Easy French Polish. Probably because it’s so easy, it comes with little specific instruction compar...

And this is why I feel justified in calling my guitar the Bisset Bodge! Awesome work, Koen!

Attachment : IMG_0312.jpeg And twenty-four hours later: Attachment : IMG_0313.jpeg

@tv101 I know, right? Otherwise it would have been like a broken light bulb - Bsst!

It’s not a decorative hole any more. It’s a feature! Attachment : IMG_0303.jpeg

Thanks for all the tips folks. I used the smallwonder-music.co.uk black CA with a tooth pick on the first pass. I’ve got some micro-tip applicators but they were far too fine for the cavernous gaps I ...

Dear reader, it was too thick to go through the nozzle. I took the nozzle off and managed to squeeze out a glutinous blob, but I’m not going to risk that on my headstock or inlays.

@liebe Thanks Dan. It looks like black superglue is thick. 03a describe theirs as medium thick. I’ve just ordered a 20g bottle from because £6.95. Small Wonder says, “Black Superglue tends to be thi...

My Tonetech black CA gave up before I could use it (very cold workshop) so I’m looking around for a suitable replacement for doing my Mother of Pearl inlays into ebony. Tonetech now supply a ‘semi-tra...

No mishap. It’s been on the drawings from the beginning. How could I, a simple brute peasant, reference the classic elegance and sophistication of D’Angelico and D’Aquisto? Simples. A wee hole. Almo...

@robin You’re a bad man 😉 My darling wife told me not to be such a fussy bugger. and I’ve decided this is a prototype - a proof of concept. But I really need to work on these slipping glue jo...

After an extended hiatus, I went back to the workshop to glue on the back. Attachment : IMG_0246.jpeg I made a couple of MDF clamping rings to help distribute the pressure and hold everything i...

The guys from the Andertons Youtube channel have done a whistlestop tour of some of the big American guitar factories. Here’s the video of the Gibson Nashville plant, which is where they’ve recently m...

@rathius Confirmed. The ES-339 is like the ES-335, with a solid maple block wrapped in laminated top, back and sides. However, Gibson have also made the CS-336, with a chambered mahogany body and a ca...