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...

Hey Mark, Now that I've become Premium I'm running out of things to suggest in the Live Stream. I really am enjoying the Live Stuff and learning a lot from you......and loving the banter between you a...

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 ...

Hi John, I haven't watched this video but I don't think you'd need to run through from 80g every time you sharpen something. If so then you have left it far too long between visits to your sharpening ...

I’ve used a few @TV1010101. From zebra wood,Pau Ferro and padauk (Lovely orange colour). Most guitarist are traditionalists so stick to what they know and the dreaded myth of tonewood...opening up an...

Darren I think your idea is great, personally I like the self torture of making my own templates as it’s part of the fun but I think there is definitely a market especially for things like pickup rout...

The venue was just a local pub, although the band have been on BBC introducing and I was hoping they would get signed. The guitarist and singer is the son of one of my mates from school (and the lad (...

Awesome I look forward to the post(s)...

Anyway, I have managed to get George to agree to play a couple of songs on my 'first born' so I'll be taking a video camera along with me to capture the event. So you've already got an endorsement de...

Sounds really good. What is the venue?

Sounds awesome and looks fantastic! I’m hoping to have a live gig video of my own to post on Sunday.....

Being played live

The best pickup combination I have done though if your feeling flush...are bare knuckle pickups. HPS90 (p90 in a humbucker case) Stockholm - neck Humbucker miracle man - bridge.. Around £300 but in th...

Hi Darren I'm not ready for printing yet, I've been distracted by my practice build that iv'e drawn on paper. I'll add the 1000mm x 100mm rectangle and export a pdf of what iv'e got and send you a fil...

Hi Robin, you should be able to NCG export from Solid Works as a pdf, which is ideal. Just put a 1000mm x 100 mm rectangle on the plan somewhere so that I can check that nothing has been scaled oddly...

@darrenking I'd be interested in a full size paper print. Iv'e been drawing my next guitar using SolidWorks, but I only have an A4 printer. Can you work from a dxf file, or what would be best for you...

It very much depends on the format that people can supply the drawings. If I can get enough people using Graphics (at about £20 per license - astonishing value!) then there is relatively little progra...

I think you'd find quite a market in the UK for someone able to provide decent quality and accurate templates. Not just for bodies/necks but for all the ancilliary templates too - pickup cavities, con...

One of the things I want to offer, and I think this would work quite well if Mark can supply the body (or neck) blanks, is to offer a bespoke machining service to guitar makers. This could be just be ...

This is the biggest issue I have. Specially with my garage. I've accumulated some tools and 2 working tables one of which I made myself (planned it for the routing table plus part of it to be the cir...