someone's got to support @jamesbisset for an archtop masterclasscourselessonvideotutorial @james-chacewatergmail-com-2 At last - someone who understands!

Posted by: @tv1010101 Sound is in the fingers more than in the choice of wood (or choice of glue, or, etc ...), IMHO of course! So ebony is going to sound just as bad as all my other guitars then 😉

@darrenking We need to talk! I haven’t got to the Bagpress bit of the pre-planning yet, but I was assuming that I’d need to either build a 3D model of front and back that I could put into a CNC machi...

I’ve been measuring my favourite guitars before spec’ing my own choice. They’re all between 2-2.8mm wide and 0.9-1.2mm tall. If you use 1.2mm height nickel frets, then a couple of fret dresses later t...

I’ve just voted for more edited videos. ARCHTOP! But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy tuning in every week. I do! I just think once a week is still awesome, and also let’s you spend more time building ...

Yeah - I like that cut across. Reminiscent of the bar on the ƒ. I’m guessing that binding it will be fiddly, but wee straight pieces of binding should be a little simpler to fit than tight curves? Or...

@tv1010101 That one looks like it’s crying tears of laughter. :¬D I’ve printed them all out. I’ll keep looking at them and see which ones grow on me. It’s only just dawned on me that I should have lai...

@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 The teardrop was deliberate, BTW. It’s an ancient decorative shape in Celtic / Indo-European culture from thousands of years ago, but it was made famous as the Paisley Pat...

@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 Yeah - that’s where we are. 😉

After @tv1010101 ’s rant about ƒ-holes elsewhere on this site, i thought I’d better re-visit my archtop guitar design. Every time I looked at my drawings all I could see was a poster for a Victorian M...

No. The string tension will be identical unless you change the tuning or the scale length... Jol Danzig sets up a rig to test string tension: If proof were needed that @markbailey is ALWAYS RIGHT!

@rocknroller912 This takes building a guitar on the kitchen table to a whole new level!

@rocknroller912 Thanks for that. Would I be right in thinking it’s a fairly expensive way to finish a guitar though? Would you do it? Touchstone Tonewoods varnishing set for oil varnish

Can’t get the 'edit' button to work, so I’ll just stick this in a separate post - oil vs spirit vs Stradivarius:

It appears that there is a debate eternal in the violin world over oil vs spirit varnish. It always reaches the ‘what would Stradivarius do’ stage. Essentially, spirit varnishes are quick to apply and...

That’s what I’m trying to work out. There must be some sweet spot between the poetry (and sheer bloody-mindedness) of this: and the simplicity (crudeness?) of just thinning a pot of Ronseal and wipin...

I’m just wondering if there’s a finishing technique that’s half way between an oil rubdown and multiple coats/cans of nitro-cellulose?

Just while we’re on the subject of the law for archtops... is it also the law to have a maple neck?

Well done! Slightly scared to see what happens next!

@frocesterbill The big Triton was collected yesterday. I did wonder if the clerical error would be compounded and they’d send me a second router without taking away the first one, but it wasn’t to be....