I’m going to try and use a couple of pieces from this scrap for my neck angle jig. 🤠 

Getting started on the neck. Our maker space has lovely tools and they make wood dimensioning a joy. I’m using some quartersawn sapele, and a couple of passes on the jointer and planer make it feel almost like it’s been…   Read more»

Hope that message didn’t sound harsh. No disrespect intended. 👍

Got it. Thanks for that

If making guitars is half as addictive as watching @mark, my wallet is in big trouble – unless I succeed in selling a few!

Thabks swerpi – the back story is that before the course I was trying to design my own prototype (with zero knowledge 😂) and have pickups and switches etc. Was hoping to reuse them here. However I think I’ll just…   Read more»

Thanks Brian. I’m definitely watching all the videos first, including the “design your first guitar” course. And yeah, definitely so many questions

Awesome book and really nice person. I ask him hordes of question and he’s always attentive. His sketchy setup serious is also lovely. Dead simple

Awesome. Thanks for that!

@clinton thanks so much for all of that. Since this is my very first build I’m going to go ahead and purchase a TOM bridge só I don’t need to make modifications for the course. However, I really want to…   Read more»

@swepri for my very first build I want to follow the course. So I opted to purchase a TOM bridge and 3×3 tuners. However I’ll still use my P90 pickups

Ah cool! I’m still watching the videos so I’m hoping to better understand the process of making the neck.
thanks!

I haven’t gotten that far watching the classes yet @NSJ – does Mark cover how to make the neck with a low angle and a volute?

Oh cool! I also caught during the wood demonsioning video mark say that the neck can be between 40-50mm.im at 45 so I might be just right!

Thanks for telling me about the scarf joint!

Thanks @clinton – I may opt to purchase a tuno-matic in that case. Mainly because this is my very first build from scratch 😀
 
Cheers and all the best