Are there any big downsides to having a longer scale length on an electric guitar? You need a bigger case for it. ?

About 5 years ago I made a guitar with a spalted maple top. I love spalted maple! Another guitar with swamp ash body, wenge fretboard, Seymour Duncan humbuckers and Grover tuners. Attachment : ima...

This was the first guitar with a scarf neck that I made at home. Swamp ash body, walnut cap, wenge fingerboard, Tonerider P90 pickups and Grover tuners. Attachment : image.png Attachment : ...

Six years ago I made a guitar for my good friend Ab (abbreviation for Albert) for his 60th birthday. Swamp ash body, figured maple top, maple neck with a ziricote fretboard. Attachment : image.png...

Hey Marcel, Don't you have a spare key to her house? She'll never know!! No, I don't. And my brother in law is a very big and strong guy.

Perhaps you could talk her into it one day. Haha, no I won't. I don't make guitars and basses for a living so I don't mind too much about the money. In this case I was ok just to get the money I ha...

Thanks for your kind words John. Yes I've built some guitars and basses over the last 10 years. Will post some more of it soon.

My first (and until now last) attempt to put some color on a guitar. Stained it cherry red and spayed it with a spraying can. Attachment : image.png Attachment : image.png Attachmen...

Thank you John!

Shortly after finishing my first build at home I started working on a Strat model and a Jazz bass. Strat: Mahogany body, maple neck and fretboard, Tonerider Pure VintageTRS1 pick-ups, Gotoh tuners an...

He certainly was! The first coat was a sealer, the others a satin finish.

Apart from his fabulous skills he was a very nice man. Last time I saw him was when he visited Amsterdam and we spent a nice afternoon chatting about all good and bad things in life. Shortly after tha...

Like Bob Ross always used to say: we don't make mistakes we only have happy accidents. ?

Well John, after my 5th course I decided to try it at home and over the years I've made several guitars and basses. And some of them worked out really well.

From a distance it does, but I keep seeing all the little flaws. But as I said one learns from his mistakes.

And this is a video of Billy spraying my bass. He truly was a spray gun wizard!

Here's a video of the building process.

I also made a video of it.

In July 2004 I went to Scotland to build a guitar in a week on the course of guitar maker Mark Bailey. And with that I was hooked. In the years since, I went to him four more times, all four times to ...

I just had to do it. One more bass. Another trip to Scotland. After I made the fretless bass it just had to have a brother. Or sister. So again a swamp ash body, maple (scarfe) neck, Lindy Fralin Jazz...