@markbailey Heh - just checking out the website: “CAUTION: Jescar Fretwire will improve the tone and playability of your guitar.” Excellent. Thank you 🙂

I really don’t like watching my daily guitars wearing slots and requiring fret-dressing quite so quickly. My Warmoth partscaster has (lovely) stainless steel frets - slick and smoove. It was the first...

@tv1010101 That Hamer is an interesting thing!

Well thanks Bill. BTN Music were really helpful and as a result, I now have a set of Hipshot tuners and Industrial Tuner Buttons. Each tuner is 4g heavier than the Sperzel but they’re gorgeous. The Sp...

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I confess to having guitar porn in the toilet. To my eye, some ƒs look good and lots are just weird. The best seem to have the top curl at the waist and the bottom curl at the widest point on the lowe...

Reverb have posted a video on the topic. It’s fairly short but shows some interesting guitar-with-top-off pics.

@david-johnson09 52? I remember those giddy, carefree days...

@markbailey 1/2" and 12mm collets included, but Triton do an adaptor for taking 1/4" bits.

For the older folk:

@frocesterbill You can pick up bargains on eBay - the Bosch POV500 can be as little as £30.... Hmmmm...

if you might have need of a big Triton router for other jobs, then you might just have been hypothetically lucky, but you’ll probably still end up buying the smaller one too. Yup. That’s kinda what I...

@frocesterbill I think what you’re saying is I really need three?

Totally hypothetical question: If I ordered a little Triton 1400watt JOF001 router, and by some clerical error, a big Triton 2400watt TRA001 router got delivered instead, would I be right in thinking ...

Thanks Mark, looks like it’s going to be ebony. Research on guitar forums suggests that, if there is a tonal difference, then ebony (like maple) has a little more top end. I reckon you can always roll...

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@markbailey Ha! No, you’ll have to make two - I’m deffo going for the pre-slotted fingerboard option!

Because I’m designing an archtop, I automatically assumed an ebony fingerboard (pre-made Bailey obvs.). But Mark prefers rosewood because he reckons it’s acoustically superior. I have dry hands and I’...

Awesome! Nails that vintage , just slightly eccentric, unique design character.

Sorry, didn’t see this because I’ve been busy building (what’s turned out to be a very uncomfortable) high stool for my standing desk. Nope, he’s Stef - graphic designer in Manchester.