Hey Folks - heads up... 😲 Thanks to Steve and Sebastian for pointing this out: The lesson order for the Acoustic Course somehow got mixed up - this has happened before after an update - very ...

Packed livestream today: Making an Acoustic Guitar - Upper and Lower Face Braces, X-Braces - BONUS: Making Benches... Its guitar making...its live...Bring your best Q's!

Its a great Q - Cheers John...I should do a video about this... I make my own benches from 2x4 and top with 18mm ply or mdf. Leave 4" of overhang so you have something to clamp on to. Screwed to a wal...

How to get your hands on LOCKDOWN LUCY!!!! 😲 Attachment : mark - lockdown lucy.JPG Finally … someone is going to be getting to play our Lockdown Lucy - the Bandsman Special Made Live du...

Looks cool - what finish/stain did you use?

Colortone is available from Stewmac - sometimes they refuse to ship it but lately seems OK.

Yes, you can but it is prohibitively expensive and does not protect you from overseas rascals...generally considered not worth the effort.

Phew almost didn't make it - but here we are! Get in early so you don't miss the new INTRO!!!!

Extremely nice - I want to ride it 😛

Looks great! It is hard to come up with an original shape but I reckon you did it. What scale length are you going for?

You can copyright your design but here in the UK it is cost prohibitive and my understanding is that it does not help outside the UK so there are hardly any examples of this happening.

Last time I showed you how I use the Side Bending Machine - but as we talked about there is always a little 'spring back'. In this livestream I'll show you how I deal with that. I will also glue on th...

Lets chill for an hour or so while I make some sides - if you have any q's put them in the chat and Carol will get them to me - cheers!

Join us today in the workshop - I'll be making the back for Ricky's custom acoustic guitar. Carol will be on hand to take your Q's and then heckle me with them - cheers!

I would start at 18mm deep for a bolt on neck socket - adjust from there to suit whatever bridge.

Get the blade first - I have both the Stewmac.com and the LMII.com version to fit a 5/8" spindle - the latter comes with 'stiffeners' not needed on the Stewmac version. So you need to find a machine t...

Here is the link to the relevant livestream - just one way to do it 😉

I'll talk about this on the livestream tomorrow if that is OK with you lot?

Yeah - not a fan of that truss rod - too big for me.

FUN FUN FUN in the workshop...Today I will mostly be... using the bandsaw - wish me luck! Bring us yer best Questions...