I was just in the process of prepping to fix the trussrod in and I noticed that I seem to have wound up in a situation where there is nothing to stop the truss rod from sliding backwards and forward i...

Failure 2, somehow when I was trying to route the deeper part of the neck sides (longer than my cutter so I had to take the template off) I managed to set things so the collet wound up rubbing. I knew...

Not one, but two failures today. The first I can put down mostly to bad luck, though maybe better router technique would have avoided it, the second was 100% facepalm when I realised what had happened...

So now we get to the night I'm starting these posts, I went in to the hackspace thinking I would have a whole evening to myself to work on the guitar, no shop projects, no hackspace system admin, no i...

Attachment : headstock angle.webp For a couple of reasons I took a slice off the top of the neck blank, then flattened it again using the planer. When it came to routing the headstock angle Mark's...

Attachment : templates.webp So, in the Hackspace we have a large format laser cutter, so I used that to cut some templates. We also have a Denford CNC converted to LinuxCNC (guess which muggins go...

Attachment : Fretslots.webp I think you may recognize the jig. This was the first day of the London Craft Festival, and I had spent the whole day talking to people trying to convince them to join ...

So having joined the London Hackspace in the hope of using the faciities to build guitars and other cool things I somehow wound up first as a maintainer organizing the woodshop and then as a Trustee (...

How about an extension module to the electric guitar course... carving a top?

Mandolins manage 22 frets on a 14" scale length The very cool sounding Emerald Guitars Amicus (short scale 12 string) has 22 frets on an 18 inch scale length.

Hi Guys, I'm trying to CAD up the design for a Telecasterish guitar (it has certain differences, 24 frets. marginally smaller body, etc) The problem is where to locate the bridge plate (Gotoh GT201, 6...

it is for a little girl after all. @boo, it may be for a little girl, but It's not twee, it's just a touch glam! I could play that at my regular Rock Jam (well I could if it was left handed) and I'd ...

@darrenking Thought it would be something like that.The diagrams assume the person doing the soldering is familiar with the common practice in guitar wiring of soldering the terminal directly to the b...

@darrenking, I can see only two ways that the volume control in that circuit would not turn the sound right down to zero 1) It's a dodgy pot, and the minimum setting is not 0 ohms between the middle t...

I've so far managed to resist the GAS directive to buy a Mirka, I don't know how long that will last.But I will say that even if you don't buy the Mirka sander, I can highly recommend the Mirka Abrane...

@Tej, I thought about laser cutting a template for paint, but the problem with that is you need a design with no holes in it, but it might be a good solution if your design works in that respect. I'm ...

It is a bit much for a one off. People seem to have quite a bit of success with DIY transfers on YouTube. I also wonder about screenprinting something. But I've just remembered that there is a little...

@darrenking what's the best way to message you?

@tej The labelling isn't 100% consistent between manufacturers, but superglue goes from a thick gel like consistency down to the super-thin which is like water in a hurry (it will wick into tiny gaps ...

Culture Hustle may have the pinkest pink, but I think Boo may have the sparkliest pink.