Made the router baseplate, patted myself on the back then realised there's no hole for the router cutter! Doh! Easily fixed but still funny! 😀 Attachment : Router.JPG

Ordered the kit from this site. I have an exam tomorrow (digital forensics) and then I can start thinking about a plan for building. Can't say I'm going to miss working with MDF - horrible stuff!!!

Humbucker, body, control cavity, neck taper and headstock patterns. Attachment : Hum and Headstock Patterns.JPG Attachment : Control Cavity Pattern.JPG Attachment : Body Pattern.JPG ...

Quickly made a neck caul. I used cork for the strips, hopefully this should work nicely. Attachment : Neck Caul.JPG I'm going to make the patterns next: Body, headstock, humbucker cavity and co...

@jonathan-auckland Thanks for the advice. In the past I've made it up as I've went along so I'm hoping by planning things out and following the videos I will be a bit more successful. I don't mind mak...

Hi and welcome from the Shed in the rain. I found that the making of all the necessary bits stoped me from jumping in at the deep end with both feet. I finished my first acoustic build recently and co...

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...

Great start - Thanks for sharing - wonderful to see!

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! 🙂

Cheers @mateyboy - It would be great if you could start a build thread here too !

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...

Interesting video - good looking and sounding guitar!

You should all watch this! Steve Anderson’s guitars fetch big money. The guitarist in the vid is world class. He doesn’t need to sponsor SA. Very interesting alternative to the normal. It’s true that ...

Any video coming from the workshop courses Mark?

@darrenking That is fantastic - got a workshop course starting today so will be busy for a few days but can't wait to have a go at that!

@md54 Birdseye veneer is mostly rotary cut and occasionally crown of or flat cut I believe. Cutting it on the quarter would result in much narrower leaves, which would reduce the value, and so it is r...

Ok, I picked up the veneers yesterday and have trimmed them and edge glued them into oversize sheets with the maple being long grain and the poplar cross grain. I have also put them through the wide b...

@md54 Hmm... - No centreblock so it must have a heel block and tail block - 2 'Parallel' braces sounds reasonable - make sure they go right under the bridge posts - How are the pickups mounted? (Any r...