So... a new blade arrived, I fit it... I set the table nice and square and the bandsaw cuts in nice straight lines. Thanks all. 🙂

Made the headstock angle jig today. I figured that I am only using it to clamp the neck and route the headstock angle so I made it a little bit shorter. Attachment : Headstock Angle Jig.JPG Fre...

When I fit the new blade and set everything up I will check the fence. But it wanders without the fence although I guess the table surface may have been slightly out - I'll check that too. Thanks.

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'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...

@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! 🙂

@markbailey Thanks. ??

@frocesterbill Thanks, must have missed the pdf! ? anyway, I have ordered a 3/8 blade from Draper. I’ll report back when I’ve installed and tested it. ?

@syntholabo That's a really good video, thanks. Incidentally the blade snapped today! I'm going to try a wider blade take look at the setup.

I have a Draper 250w bandsaw with a maximum cutting depth of about 80 - 85mm. I've set it up according to the manual, it cuts wood fine but the blade wanders a bit, cutting straight is quite a challen...

Hello all, I'm fairly new to this community. I've attempted to build a few guitars over the last couple of years and made many mistakes and this means they are usually unplayable! So I'm a pretty usel...

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