Thanks @tv101. your fortitude and resolution is admirable. But having stepped out onto the wide open plain of possibility that is wax finishing, that Black Bison is calling me; the musky scent, the im...

@tv101 Thanks. Totally understand. We’ve got the new stove working in here so it’s 28°c in the living room. We’ve sealed the door and Ruth, me and the dogs are waiting for April. No-one is going out t...

Maybe it’s just my age, but I’m feeling in the need of a fancy wax myself. You neglected to mention which one though. One of these, I assume? The Black Bison Paste sounds suitably macho for a vigorou...

@tv101 This Easy French polish looks like it might hit the sweet spot between hardcore violin varnish and Danish Oil. Question: does it leave a ring on the guitar when you rest a nice, hot cup of tea...

Worlds collide! Apologies if someone has already linked to this. I thought some of us might be interested.

😊🎸 - no emoticon for a sunburst Les Paul, sorry.

Posted by: @tv101 Damn - I must have missed that one? Thick and fast, TV. Thick and fast.

Thanks Russ. I could do with making a new one, but Chez Bisset is a kinda inaccessible at the moment... Attachment : IMG_8588.JPG

Thanks Russ. Reckon it might need another verse and some lyric tweaking, but it’s turned into an an ear worm for me. I can’t get it out of my head!

@rocknroller912 Thanks Bill. Reckon that’s the next one to demo for the album.

Thanks Russ 🙂 Those of a sensitive disposition look away now. That is a Vox Tornado which I bought in Harare for £40 in 1984. Then I did terrible things to it. But my projected laminated semi-hollowbo...

@russ Slowly, Mr Russ, slowly. It’s kinda quaint making an album these days, but I’ve got a bunch of tunes now that I wrote and (hastily) arranged and performed over the past year for Acoustic Bliss ...

Posted by: @tv101 This link should take you straight to the chatroom Have I missed all the action? It’s 21:30 here and I seem to be the only one in the room...

Posted by: @tv101 Reminder that we said we'd have a Guitar Builders' Jitsi at 8pm on Tuesdays. I was going to create a different chatroom - the BanjoDebuilders, or MarksGuitarMakers or somesuch, but...

@tv101 To go from my weekly Apple/Spotify ‘you had zero listens’ reports to this - my head is still l spinning. My work here is done.

Posted by: @rocknroller912 I wonder if the bridge position on factory guitars is related to the nodal point on strings ie the stationery point which doesn’t move when a string is played. Good analys...

I’ve been mulling on the common pickup positions and wondering if there are any rebels who break with convention. To that end I made a wee numbered grid from 0 - 10 and overlaid it on a variety of gui...

The B flat 7 chord is the five chord though isn’t it? It should kind of work as it’s still it’s still within the E flat Major key. @boo Unfortunately, I chose to sing an F for some reason. That’s the...

@rocknroller912 Thank you 🙂 I have a musician friend now struggling with Parkinson’s Disease. He has always insisted on authenticity in recording, to the extent that he continued to use a 4-track reco...

Thanks @russ 🙂 I sometimes wonder if there isn’t something self-destructive lurking in the sub-conscious. I didn’t actually get there in the end. On the last sung note I should be playing a B flat 7 c...