Hi Bill, Naptha seems to be the fraction of crude oil that distills immediately prior to petroleum. There seem to be multiple sources on eBay and Fiddes do a naptha thinners which may be of interest. ...

Hi Bill, I think you would need to check with Mark on that and I'm not sure whether he has had a chance to press a front or back yet. I do know that Mark is very keen to get a course of this style of ...

Sound really interesting - does this mean that a full 335 style build would be practical in a 7 to 8 day workshop course with Mark?

With dreams of future mass production(!!!) I am going to make a pair of Maccaferri moulds out of layers of MDF so that they can be used with silicone heater pads. Using the UF resin means that I can h...

One of the issues with my first home build was that I didn’t sand it enough. I used my old orbital sander but it can be a bit fierce so I didn’t use it as much as I should have...... I picked up the ...

Ok, I picked up the veneers yesterday and have trimmed them and edge glued them into oversize sheets with the maple being long grain and the poplar cross grain. I have also put them through the wide b...

@md54 Birdseye veneer is mostly rotary cut and occasionally crown of or flat cut I believe. Cutting it on the quarter would result in much narrower leaves, which would reduce the value, and so it is r...

Thanks Darren - what a useful graphic!

Posted by: @darrenking Hi md54, Quarter cut is as per an acoustic guitar sound board ie the grain runs at close to 90° to the surface. This cut typically displays lots of straight, closely spaced gro...

Hi md54, Quarter cut is as per an acoustic guitar sound board ie the grain runs at close to 90° to the surface. This cut typically displays lots of straight, closely spaced growth rings on the face. F...

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Anyone here built pickups? I had some spare time at work (work in IT in some schools and had a day where I press a button every 10 minutes to get some PCs configured) and looked at some YouTube stuff....

Posted by: @markbailey The Sorrento is a Korean repro and is probably the cheapest guitar I ever bought. It’s also one of the best sounding and playing guitars I ever owned. I won’t bore you or brag...

Further info on the Sorrento. I now think it's Chinese! It's one of a recent run of 're issues of an early models. The minimal top arching doesn't look great but I honestly am not bothered. You're onl...

Hi, Ok, so I can get quarter cut 1.5mm tulipwood (poplar by any other name) and 1.5mm maple in either crown cut or quarter cut. Most of the images online suggest that the face veneer is crown cut, wh...

@darrenking Yup, I guess that would work but I don’t fully understand the timber cut terms. ps the back is dished but appears to have no bracing at all! So I guess it must have been pressed to a very...

Hi James, Your options with an 80mm diameter blade are going to be very limited and you are unlikely to find any commercially available table saw that will take this blade and give you a sufficient de...

Progress thanks to the bad weather. Making the ancillary bits and bobs and have ordered all the parts to finish the guitar. Decided on stain colour. Not green!!!! Attachment : IMG_20200211_154844[...

Hi Folks New member here. I’m a life long jazz guitar nut and now approaching retirement I’ve set up a workshop in my conservatory. My objective is to build an Epiphone Sorrento replica as a first gu...

I really enjoyed the live Youtube session and I’ll look forward to it every month. I loved the video and input from Darren King, it was very informative, such a knowledgeable guy. Keep it up Mark.