@seanf I also converted the box room in the house into a small indoor workshop, it’s great in the winter. I stripped the room of everything, decorated and used the top off an old wardrobe to make a wo...

@seanf Just to give you another bench idea or two. In my garage/workshop I took an old pallet, screwed some legs to it with strengthening braces and put a big piece of MDF on top. This was all scrap ...

@rocknroller912 , @tej Thank you for your insight! I certainly will keep in mind to ask questions when they come up around tools also. Luckily I have sourced someone with a Router I can borrow initial...

@seanf For what it’s worth I did all my carving with the wood clamped to a workmate bench, well, a cheap copy from Wickes and it’s been fine. Obviously more space and a beautifully arranged workshop w...

Got my fretboard material in today, and set up the bandsaw for resawing down to the right thickness. It's Macassar Ebony, and it was very inexpensive for the board I bought. (MUCH less than any rosewo...

More work happened today. Might have screwed up as I cut the start of the scarf joint today, but the back (glue side) of my neck wasn't planed and so I had to run it through the drum sander to get it ...

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That gives me a better working height

I’ve been using a Blacker and Decker workbench since 1982 and bought a second one a few years ago in a sale but I do find I get back pain now so I tend to work standing up using a T board held in a be...

@boo Thanks for the great suggestion, I have one of those, but didn't even think about getting another one and making a table out of it, that will certainly be much more of a quicker start up for the ...

Posted by: @alanlush Split over 2 weeks separated by 6 months…. That’s what puts me off doing a course build - having to split the build over 2 separate (long distance) trips, and that wait, wait, w...

@russ yeah, even better ‘in the flesh’. It’s one of Mark’s new tonewood laminates. Keeps the cost down, increases stability, but still allows for a really heavily figured finish.

@seanf Welcome to you Sean. Whatever you decide to do first, you will find help here. As far as a bench goes, I used two trestle type things and a big sheet of MDF for my first work bench (see pictur...

Welcome @seanf. You're going to love it. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

@rocknroller912 brilliant! I certainly will if I find any more issues with it 🙂

@seanf If you have any repairs to your old guitar other than fretting, which is covered in Marks course, post them on the forum first and you can get a few opinions on the best way to proceed.

@rocknroller912 I bought some fret wire a few months ago just off amazon before I had done much research into the subject, I have Dunlop accu-fret jumbo size. I am unsure whether I will still use thos...

@markbailey I am quickly weighing on the side of just starting one from scratch, I might give the fretting a go and see how I get on until I have the rest of the tools!

@seanf Welcome to the forum. Repairs are much harder than building from new, especially on cheap factory instruments. Often they use glue that can’t be taken apart so te whole thing breaks. Where are ...

Welcome Sean! £20 guitars are great for starting on but I highly recommend building from scratch - in some ways it is easier than repairing...and you'll learn so much. I am biased obviously ...