Hope your Mum recovers and you get to see her soon Mark. No need to apologise - except maybe for making us obsessed with building guitars! Take care Rich

@markbailey I’m so sorry to hear of the horrendous problems you’ve had and your especially your mums health. I do hope she makes a speedy recovery and that you get to see her soon. Your family should...

@markbailey Nothing but warmth and respect wrapped up in oodles of appreciation for you, your situation and the hard work/output to date, that we continue to benefit from . People first!!!

@steveadams. Cheers again Steve. Another great video......my foot was tapping all the way through. It's all coming along nicely. 🙏🎸🙂🎶

Hi Guys Here is Part 2 Cheers Steve Attachment : PART 12 MASTER.m4v

@steveadams Looks like your build is shaping up ok. Good tip with the bulldog clips. Cautionary tale for anyone who is tempted to try and reduce costs by shopping around for parts instead of buying a...

Hey Guys due to file size limit the next bit is in 2 parts...relax as there is no trauma in this section...ha ha cheers Steve Attachment : PART 11 MASTER.mp4

Hidden Tenon, neck through, Spalted Maple Top Attachment : IMG_4308.mp4

I can't ever blame the volute for my playing being so bad.... The volute on my Firebird build is quite big but doesn't get in the way for some reason.... The neck is also quite big - a couple of mm d...

@mattbeels You’ve been very quiet recently thought you had fallen off the planet

@rocknroller912 Trust you to lower the tone of the conversation Baaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!

Attachment : profilecut1.jpg spent some time making the front and back profiles for key points (bridge, waist and longitudinal. Now for the fun bit. I'm carving the profiles into the wood using a ...

Looking good @jmcmi93888 🙏🎶🙂🎸

Attachment : steppedplates.jpg Today's offering is the front and back (planed to 17mm thick) with the perimeter reduced to 5mm using my router in a stand and carefully running the edge past the bl...

Lovely work 🙂🙂🙂

Neck looking good and the headstock isn’t too pointy.

@cheesewhisk The volute

@cheesewhisk The volume looks ok to me it’s far enough away from the 1st fret not to interfere with playing.

More work this weekend. Not sure about the valute, something to pay more attention to next time I think. Attachment : EA749CDD-FDFF-4335-9D16-8D2AAD2AAE05.jpeg Attachment : AB5CC0F6-973C-4...

Brilliant!