Hi Bill, given the shape I would go for a chamfer. I think it has enough radical curves in its frontal elevation so the contrast should look pretty sharp. If you hate it you can always blend it in lat...

Really brilliant session - well done Mark! The new widget does open up some options - like you did today you could run a video and add commentary live. Thanks for the through neck stuff - clearest exp...

I watched today’s session on catch up and it was wonderful! Mark, you are changing peoples lives and if that isn’t worth getting emotional over then what is? Darren

Mark is passionate about building guitars - the one he builds and the ones that we build either at the workshop or on line. He gets a real buzz out of seeing people realise that they really can build...

I enjoyed the livestream today (as I always do) so I’ve decided to practice what I’ve learned. I found a couple of pieces of pine 4x2 in my workshop so I made a through-neck blank, it’s about 1200mm l...

Good review of exotica

I made a tribute build to the Bailey exotica at The Bailey workshop. Attachment : 92BFDDE7-6D6A-42E5-814A-F52AA44B42AF.jpeg Attachment : E6C28B79-5B57-41CC-8710-E257A8F51CCF.jpeg Attac...

Lower wing glued together and cut out - there is a channel routed into the middle Walnut layer to take wires from the switch and pickup cavities (when I have cut them) to the main control cavity.........

Nearly messed up earlier...... I have been routing control cavities - one for the switch and one for the pots. I made patterns for the cavities and for the recess for cover for cavities. Routed both c...

Painstakingly wired up a 4-way switch in the old Squire tele I do my experimenting on. It works, and sounds great and all, right until I apply any gain, then it squeals and farts, feeds back, whole gu...

me again , i just ordered a router with a 1/4 chuck and didn't realise when i ordered it , will this be ok?

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I’ve been building up to this for a while and have had some preliminary sketches kicking around since pre-Covid-19, yes, as long ago as that!! The fact that I have now got 6 or 7 sets of sides that w...

Fair enjoyed it, was a good wee reminder of some of the details that had slipped my mind! Inspired to hit the shed for a wee spot of jigs & template making tonight...

Right, so I need to refine my drawing a bit to suit the parts I've scrounged up. I've got a fretboard, a cut-off tele bridge and a 42mm nut, so I'm diverging a bit to suit my parts bin. I'd drawn up a...

thats awsome

nice one thank you , im gonna see about maybe saving up or something and get down for a cbyo , but for now ill make my baritone tele with duel emg's and see how good i can get that finished

My build from a Bailey kit - plays and sound really good! Attachment : 26177D58-2CFF-455D-BCFA-3126756501FB.jpeg

I have done two courses with Mark but when I built my first at home I bought a (slightly customised) kit from Mark - all the bits were the correct thickness and nice and true.

im looking at the kit , i think im gona get that and make my first. would love to do a course but there very expensive. is it possible to make a guitar of better quality than say a Gibson with a kit a...