It doesn't look that bad @electricstringtheorygmail-com. Keep going. 🙏🎸🙂🎶

@electricstringtheorygmail.com First of all welcome the group. I think you've had the best advice from Mark already if you want to keep a natural finish, I wouldn't want to hide that beautiful wood ei...

Thanks for the reply Mark, and the link to the course - will def check that out, as I still have a lot left to do. Unfortunately I think you are right on the ‘can’t put it back on again’ category - I...

Ouch. 😮 Ideas anyone? I suspect this probably goes in the 'you can take it off but you can't put it back on again' category... This is why I always highly recommend following along with the co...

So I am part way through my first build. I have completed the neck and designed and rough shaped the body, but having put the two together for the first time, I have realised the body shape is now out...

@mikeyrjiom I come from an automotive finishing background so I use different types of paints. What @clinton is suggesting is a valid technique for repairing, although I haven’t done it with Aquacoat ...

Thanks (@clinton) for the help. I will contact the owner and arrange a time so I can do the work. Will let you know the outcome (@markbailey) nice to hear from you. Hope all is well

Cheers Clinton! I can't wait to try this...let us know how it goes @mikeyrjiom ?

Beautiful Guitar! Too bad about the scratch. Ok, U have done this before. Wet Sand 800 Grit surrounding area using a rubber eraser as your sanding block. Just enough to where scratch just slightly co...

@mikeyrjiom Thats a great looking guitar. The forum finishing expert is @boo however from my limited knowledge and experience nitro can be touched up without too much trouble. If the scratch has gone ...

Hello from the Isle of Man. The good news.... I actually sold one of my acoustic builds. (can I call myself a luthier now 😆) The bad news..... The guy has had it a month and a friend has scrat...

I'm *just* manly enough to go into Screwfix 🙂 I don't want to get laughed out of a lumber yard for building a guitar and not a house 😉 @stephen No, don’t think like that. The lumber y...

Again, thank for the welcome - and I'm sure great advice. I'm just about finished my 2nd kit build, I've learned A LOT - some of which I'll go back and apply to my 1st kit and even some of my more aff...

making a neck still looks intimidating @stephen Firstly, welcome 🙂 Secondly, please don’t let wood intimidate you! I’d previously put together a kit guitar, finished it nicely and learn how t...

Sounds familiar @Boo, I think I'm getting to the stage where building another kit again won't teach me too much... And expensive hobbies... when I'm not being a wannabe luthier I'm a wannabe cyclist! ...

It's easy to think that you need to spend £hundreds on all the tools needed to build guitars. And it probably would add up to that quite easily. But (and there are a couple of buts) ... But #1 - onc...

I hope my next project will be something along the lines of starting with a body blank, perhaps with a ready-made neck - making a neck still looks intimidating! @stephen Yep, I’ve done that a few tim...

@stephen perhaps with a ready-made neck - making a neck still looks intimidating! Making your own guitar neck for the first time is a daunting thing, but once you get started, it's not so difficult...

Any opinion is welcome here! A servicable router would have cost about as much as my first kit, not to mention the materials like mdf and/or plywood for making templates. I can't comment on acoustic i...

@stephen Welcome to the forum. I’m going to swim against the tide and say that building kits is harder than starting with blank pieces of wood and templates. Seriously though kits, particularly acoust...