But - seriously - I've never bothered trying to fine tune the set-up to that extent. @tv101 sadly this is the kind of thing that will bug me! Given I’ve not started the actual build I’ll look for ano...

Curious as to why I’d need to file the slots though? So from a glace it doesn’t look like they will adjust in height after all. If you file the string slots in the saddle deeper, then you'll be abl...

So from a glace it doesn’t look like they will adjust in height after all. Just need to work out what the reality of that is. Given I’ve not started it’s tempting to keep for build 2 and just get a 12...

I just noticed that bridge has a 14” radius, are you aware of that? I don’t know which radius you’re planning on your board but if it’s a 12 then a 14 will be a tad flat. Seriously @mattbeels (serio...

@mattbeels irritatingly i didn’t consider the radius of the bridge despite ensuring the fretboard radius was what I wanted. I’d presumed that the saddle height on all bridges was adjustable. I’ll have...

so much more of the sound depends on what you plug it into Totally agree. Most famous players have their sound, doesn't matter what pickups are on what guitar, through which amp, they still sound lik...

Hot Slags went into my first Bailey BYOG course build. @tv101 curiously that’s what I was planning to use for mine, so much more of the sound depends on what you plug it into it’s hard to get recomme...

Professional builders aren’t offended by customers having specific requirements like no black plastic. @rocknroller912 (& @mattbeels). There's a story to this guitar. When I did my first BYOG wor...

Thanks guys, I think unless I decide to make the body a lot thinner I’ll leave the custom bit for now. From memory I think the blank I’ve ordered is about 45mm so unlikely to take it down this time.@d...

@mattbeels Thanks for your vote of confidence, I’ve spent some time this evening marking out the route for the truss rod channel and making sure the headstock still fits the blank. Not many mm to spar...

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Professional builders aren’t offended by customers having specific requirements like no black plastic. It all adds to the challenge and it’s a great sense of achievement when you can tick all the boxe...

Seriously though, why didn’t you specify no BLACK PLASTIC? @mattbeels - when I eat at Michelin restaurants, I don't (often) tell the chef what salt to use.

Coming along nicely @boo. 👍 🎸🎶🙏🙂

We decided on the very large flake in the end, it looks good. It never looks brilliant at this first stage but it will once I get a shine on it. Right now it’s quite like sand paper, P80 grade i recon...

I’m no painter but I think the flake should be in proportion to the body size. Very large would be too big.

I won’t vote in this poll so as not to potentially swing it one way or the other. This guitar body is being painted as part of a project for a new guitar being built for a father and daughter in Amer...

This Strat was sent to me recently from America for a paint job and it needed some repairs done before I started with paint. Those repairs are done now and the whole guitar body is now in primer and a...

So, now what are you going to make from that nice flat piece of Ash?

OK, maybe i did change the strings. But I wound them properly, according to the teachings.