Does "measure twice cut once" count as one tip, two tips (once for each measure) or three? Keep your hands away from the sharp cutty things. Especially when they're travelling at speed. When dealing ...

Today I will be giving you my 5 best tips for making guitars and then I will reveal (whatsss he got in hisss pockettsseess) What is the best thing you got from the course? Any tips for beginners (or p...

Is that not the same view in Blackpool @deej Absolutely not unfortunately. 😆

@rockpile99 I laminated poplar for a neck from a futon couch/bed frame. Pretty solid. Watch out for the knots in pine. They tend to fall out when tou hit it with the rasp.

@jamesbisset It's on its way!

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What a brilliant idea that I'd never thought of! You're more than welcome to claim as your own tv1, afterall sharing knowledge is what the guitar building community is all about. (unless you were bei...

@rocknroller912 although I suspect he will find that not much of it is useable for instruments. Phew! That’s me off the hook. Cosy log fires it is!

@darrenking Email me your address and I’ll send your good lady some for Christmas It is done!

I've just made this neck blank out of laminated pine shelving strips. I don't think knotty pine will make a proper neck but I want to try Mark's "angled headstock with jig and router" technique and do...

@jamesbisset I have a stack of lovely 3mm birch ply off cuts from a job that we are currently doing that are perfect for practitioners of the wood burning art! Email me your address and I’ll send your...

@jamesbisset It’s going to take sodding ages to cut down trees with something safer than a shovel!! Can’t you read them something really boring or terrible (Jeffrey Archer?) until they just dry up and...

@darrenking Thanks for this info, I didn't know it could be used to soften veneer but I would agree it's easier to find ready to use stock. I was only suggesting to James that it might be a way of usi...

An alternative to years of air drying for a solid body could be polyethylene glycol or PEG. Off-topic but interesting. My darling dear (for it is she) does pyrography, and thin slices of log are alwa...

@rocknroller912 with regard to guitar bodies, it must be easier to buy dry wood in the first place. If you do happen to have a felled tree that you want to turn into guitars then, unless you can find ...

@rocknroller912 this chemical is often used as a veneer softener, especially for burrs and burls which have a tendency to go VERY crinkly after slicing. Brush it on to both sides of the veneer leave i...

@jamesbisset An alternative to years of air drying for a solid body could be polyethylene glycol or PEG. It's used by wood turners to work with green wood. Make up 30% or 50% solution with water and s...

So far, beside "proper stuff", I have used: two 50 year old teak shelves. I was told that it was too oily to use for a guitar. I made a body by glueing strips together. I made two necks using the same...

@rocknroller912 Yeah, I heard chestnut was reasonable for carving but not much good for tonewood. At some point I’ll need to fell some of the sycamore. There’s a carpenter over by with a chainsaw and ...

@jamesbisset Ive tried local horse chestnut for wood turning after it had been split for five years and dried. It wasn't good to work with having a wide grain. Ive kept some small bits to see if it im...