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RE: Maltese cross guitar

Nice work @cooperman. 🎸🙂🙏🎵

In forum Electric

11 hours ago
Maltese cross guitar

Attachment : 20250628_123749.jpg Attachment : 20250628_123735.jpg Attachment : 20250628_123743.jpg This Maltese cross shaped guitar (a nod to Ian Hunter's of Mott the Hoople) was a b...

In forum Electric

1 day ago
RE: Single Cut Makeover

Next, I levelled the frets, recrowned, polished and dressed the ends. Then I applied Liberon finishing oil to the neck (6 coats) and the top of the body (8 coats). I thought that the oil might make th...

In forum Electric

6 days ago
RE: Single Cut Makeover

Attachment : makeover4.jpg Attachment : makeover5.jpg Attachment : makeover6.jpg Attachment : makeover3.jpg Attachment : makeover2.jpg And so the fun begins, neck strip...

In forum Electric

6 days ago
Single Cut Makeover

Attachment : 20250330_131059.jpg Attachment : 20250330_131039.jpg Attachment : 20250330_131021.jpg Now it may seem strange to start with some photos of a complete guitar but this is ...

In forum Electric

1 week ago
RE: Wide neck Tele?

@boo welcome!

In forum Pluckers Paradise

11 months ago
Wide neck Tele?

OK all you Fender experts out there. I’ve got someone who wants me to make him a Tele with very simple spec BUT has specified a wide neck. Does anyone know if there is a recognised wide size for a Te...

In forum Pluckers Paradise

11 months ago
RE: Trials, tribulations and a guitar build

To avoid breakout I no longer route the headstock profile and use the method described by Brian here... I think I would try sanding/scraping the top face of the neck to remove the marks left by the co...

In forum Electric

2 weeks ago
RE: Trials, tribulations and a guitar build

@jonhodgson Totally agree with Dan's comments and would just like to add that routing the headstock shape can be tricky, maybe better to cut close to your template lines on the bandsaw then use belt s...

In forum Electric

2 weeks ago
RE: Bandsmen

Attachment : IMG_8568.jpeg Attachment : IMG_8572.jpeg Attachment : IMG_8570.jpeg Attachment : IMG_8574.jpeg Attachment : IMG_8587.jpeg Attachment : IMG_8576.jpeg ...

In forum Electric

2 weeks ago
Tele type thing completed!

If you think you have seen it or something like it before you probably have. Built similar guitar for a friend last year that worked out so well I just had to do one for myself. It took a while due to...

In forum Electric

2 weeks ago
RE: Stopping the truss rod from sliding in slot

Hey Jonathan - That's normal. We normally push it as far back as it will go (towards the body end). This way it cannot slide back any further so could only potentially move forwards but - it won't mov...

In forum Guitar ER - When Guitar Builds Go Bad

2 weeks ago
RE: prs style guitar

@liebe thank you

In forum Electric

3 weeks ago
RE: How to treat this maple fretboard

@russ I did and do, well, until it ran out lol.

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

4 weeks ago
RE: How to treat this maple fretboard

@somethingnicer I used that on an oak fretboard, seems fine but it's also super easy to re apply later if need be.

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

4 weeks ago
RE: Trials, tribulations and a guitar build

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...

In forum Electric

3 weeks ago
RE: Trials, tribulations and a guitar build

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...

In forum Electric

3 weeks ago
RE: Trials, tribulations and a guitar build

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...

In forum Electric

4 weeks ago
RE: Trials, tribulations and a guitar build

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...

In forum Electric

4 weeks ago
RE: Trials, tribulations and a guitar build

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 ...

In forum Electric

4 weeks ago
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