Hi guys, I've not posted for a while, real life has got in the way and guitar build gone on the back burner. My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of months ago. She's now had surgery twic...

Great design @robin. I was looking to get straight strings but decided I needed to go for the 4-2 setup. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

Sounds like a good plan @robin

@russ @deej The plan is for the strings to be straight up from the nut and parallel to each other. Time will tell, I want to lacquer the body before I press the bridge posts in, so it might be a whi...

A different look - I like it 👍🏻

Very neat @robin. 👍😁 🙏🎶🎸🙂

Thats the tuner holes lined up at last, all the butchery is hidden under the washers. Also reshaped the headstock a little to make the holes an equal distance from the edge and to give the D tuner kno...

🤔....fair point! Hopefully I’ll join you all soon. double posting away ...mods...

Good god!... To be fair, @Deej, this is our job. We don't have w*rk to deal with, unlike some others ....

Nice one @robin the repair looks great

Yes @tv101 an echo... Good god!... Attachment : 60FAF067-3B7E-471C-AEF8-3F473DD80E37.jpeg

🙁 Boo @Boo Now I know why you boys have so many points...double posting 🤣

@mattbeels You’ve been very quiet recently thought you had fallen off the planet

Hi guys, I’m fed up with filing 6 nut slots so have we got any acoustic bass builders out there who might be able to point me in the direction of good plans or just share with me some hints and tips? ...

Brilliant!

Nice!! I bet Mark has tried this with Carol's coffee table at some stage!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

Coffee tables make good router sled bases 👍 Attachment : 530FCC18-DAD6-4C9E-838B-F7CCFC047EB4.jpeg

I can't ever blame the volute for my playing being so bad.... The volute on my Firebird build is quite big but doesn't get in the way for some reason.... The neck is also quite big - a couple of mm d...

@cheesewhisk The volute

@cheesewhisk The volume looks ok to me it’s far enough away from the 1st fret not to interfere with playing.