Humbucker, body, control cavity, neck taper and headstock patterns. Attachment : Hum and Headstock Patterns.JPG Attachment : Control Cavity Pattern.JPG Attachment : Body Pattern.JPG ...

Made the router baseplate, patted myself on the back then realised there's no hole for the router cutter! Doh! Easily fixed but still funny! 😀 Attachment : Router.JPG

Keep going - I’m probably a week behind you.......

I made a slow start today (don't want to rush the job and make a mess). I routed the truss rod channel and surface routed the neck angle. 🙂 Attachment : TrussRodRout.JPG Attachment : Truss C...

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Ok. It certainly made it easier to bend the bindings having been pre-soaked and the non-vacuum test absorbed 4g of water into 66cc of wood so pretty much the same albeit left submerged for quite a lot...

Talking of ultra-fine steel wool... Mark- you mention 00000 grade in the videos. Did you mean 0000? That's wat i got cos thats all there iz

@markbailey I am happy to post the entire 'blog' here and not to the wider Internet? I find that when I write stuff down it makes me do things better... weird but that's what I am like! 🙂

I've had a go at making guitars in the past, but they generally turn out bad. In fact bad is giving them too much praise. I've made so many mistakes there isn't enough disk space on all the servers on...

Yesterday I made the neck heel angle jig. Attachment : Heel Angle Jig.JPG I've never made one of these before and angling the heel of a guitar neck is one of the top mistakes I've made in the p...

I see this is an old post but... I'd like to see a paint spraying course. 🙂

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Workshop is just about ready - bandsaw, oscillating spindle sander, pillar drill, routers and a shop vac - all of the tools and materials on the list in the tools PDF - jigs and most of the patterns m...

Decision has been made to build a Bandsman with stock hardware to reduce the FUF..............

No pics of the meet this time around - Alan’s Bandsman has featured in workshop course videos - the Les Paul was built elsewhere in 12 days I think (or was it more) lovely inlays - played and sounded ...

And a welcome from down south, in my shed in the rain.

Alan popped round today bringing two lovely guitars with him - the Bandsman he built in Ayr and a stunning Les Paul build. Good to have a chat and plot more visits to Bailey’s. Hope we can get togethe...

Welcome neighbour!

Hi just signed up. It was great fun building "The Phoenix" the week before last with Neil, Martin and Jim, who each built stunning guitars.. Photos to follow.

I became frustrated with traditional rosette/circle cutters so I came up with this & thought I would share it so you can make your own. With this design you don’t have to repeatedly adjust the pos...