I am more concerned about glue joint area than I am side wall strength. My bridge and fretwire showed up today, so I got to ogle the guitar jewelry a bit this morning. (Schaller 3D-6 in gold) Now, I k...

@wolframmalukker @koendb tv101 was asking the same thing a few days ago[ here ]. The consensus was 10 mm thickness The consensus may have been 10mm a few days ago, I reduced my current build to 7mm ...

Welcome! I'm excited to be getting started as well. Please ask lots of questions, I bet I will have very similar ones! 🤠 👍

Looks like I'm a bit late to this welcome party. But, welcome @stephen-hayes - good to have another traveller on this journey.

Hi @stephen-hayes, Welcome to the best guitar making resource in the world! And don't worry, in the field of guitar making related woodworking questions there is no such thing as stupid! Have fun Darr...

Welcome @stephen-hayes There usually is lots of helpful answers in this forum. One thing I have learned this year is to make mistakes look like intentional design features. 😀

@stephen-hayes Housework can earn brownie points which can be spent on guitar building time🔨🎸🤣 As for the centre line paranoia, I find regular medication helps🍻Ǵ...

Thank you everyone for your welcome. So far i have learned two things. The first is that if I keep my workspace clean my wife now thinks I need to apply this principle to he house! The second is that ...

@stephen-hayes Welcome Stephen. Enjoy the ride. You'll get some great advice through your journey on here. Looking forward to seeing what you can produce. 🙏🙂🎶🎸

Welcome to the builds. Savor the journey and enjoy the outcome.

Hi and welcome to the group, enjoy the journey!! Normally I’m to be found in Northeast Scotland but by a strange coincidence I’m currently very near High Wycombe!! Looking forward to heading north ag...

Welcome to the group, its a great way to retire, you'll soon wonder how you had time to work.

Hello! All I can say is I am excited to get going on this journey, especially as proper power has now been laid in to my shed of dreams. This is really my retirement project. It's been many, many year...

“Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.” Thom Yorke Attachment : 8E5EDF25-07A2-4BA0-A008-CE491FC59A28.jpeg The Bandsmen Chime in with a pic of an old build every Thu...

I second that. Anyone playing around 'under the bonnet' so to speak, should definitely have this book by their side.

@chrishamilton Oh, and don’t forget the output jack as well 👍🤣

@brie Thanks Brian. That's good advice. I'll do that before ripping it all out and starting again.

@chrishamilton Hi again Chris, Was just thinking about your electrics problems, the most likely culprits are probably the volume and tone pots and the pickup selector switch. Try cleaning these with ...

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I picked up that book mentioned earlier, so I'll be digging into that while I figure out what I want to do with the electronics as I rescue the old Yamaha.

@chrishamilton Welcome to the community from someone even closer, I live along the road near Falkirk, although I'm a bit further west just now over in Argyll.