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RE: Suitable UK/European timber for building

@liebe not so much sacrilegious as just plain weird! 🤣

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

16 hours ago
Thinline tele

Latest build is a double f hole thinline tele, body is yew and resin with a sipo mahogany top, slightly flamed maple neck with ebony board. Loving the P90's from warman guitars   Attachment : ...

In forum Electric

2 days ago
RE: Suitable UK/European timber for building

@liebe spalted is good, un spalted can be quite heavy but good for a semi hollow like a thinline tele or that

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

2 days ago
RE: Cavity cover thickness advice?

@drewbag Living for the challenge! Lol

In forum Build Your Own Electric Guitar

3 months ago
RE: Order of Operations question

With osmo I finish the neck first then oil, that's what I did on the copper tele with oak board. Worked great.

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

4 months ago
RE: Cavity cover thickness advice?

@drewbag Not magnets but I generally do about 5 or 6mm with wood covers. I just screw them down though which helps if they curve a bit. You could try gluing a veneer of wood to say 2mm aluminium. That...

In forum Build Your Own Electric Guitar

4 months ago
last one before Xmas

Mahogany neck and body, ash top and headstock plate, ebont board, jumbo frets. Gotoh hardware and seymour dunscan JB4 SH2N pickup combo. It's one my favourites I've done so far.       ...

In forum Electric

4 months ago
RE: Hot off the bench, latest build.

Looks great! I'm currently having my first go a faux binding, pain in the rear lol   I like to wipe down with thinned down polyurethane first, shows all the scratches I missed. Then I'll coat wit...

In forum Electric

4 months ago
RE: My most recent build

@brie Router sled and a laser, it was actually pretty easy. The lightburn software for the laser is brilliant too

In forum Electric

5 months ago
RE: My most recent build

@brie lasered them, had to drill where the resin is though because it's blue and my laser is a diode type, but I made templates when practicing with ash. Started with paper till it was spot on, then a...

In forum Electric

5 months ago
My most recent build

Wanted to try something different, yew and resin for top, fretboard and headstock plate. Mahogany neck, limba body. CF rods added in the neck. Running the iron gear dirty torque blues engine set. I wa...

In forum Electric

5 months ago
RE: Hi from another newbie in Scotland - Justin

Hey up, I'm north east and gather in my shed with tools and wood lol

In forum New Members

5 months ago
Answer to: Advice on body cap carve top with cavity.

Can't you turn it over, make that side the top then all that will get carved out anyway? If not binding is about 6mm and it looks like you should hide most if not all of it, could also skim the bac...

In forum Build Your Own Electric Guitar

8 months ago
RE: Hello everyone, newbie member - Andy

Hi Andy, you can try whatever scale you like but just remember to read the trem routing cavity instructions properly to get the posts in the correct place. Also worth finding out if there's a sweet sp...

In forum New Members

9 months ago
RE: Bosch Colt palm Router, anyone using this?

@andyorton2gmail-com It's a fine router, smooth etc. I mainly use it for the truss rod channel. I find the palm routers much easier to handle for everything else. Stick a bigger base on them to mak...

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

9 months ago
RE: Latest build

@brie Here's a couple, basically mounted like a regular 2 point trem, then I added a recess and then cut the back end away so there was no restriction. Nice brass block to finish off the look. A...

In forum Electric

9 months ago
Latest build

Friend asked me to build him a guitar, he sent the wood. Pale moon ebony and mahogany. Originally a prs, then a superstrat and finally he sent me a pic and said this please lol. Anyway stranberg boden...

In forum Electric

9 months ago
RE: Rattly truss rod

It'll be fine, if it still rattles after set up just drill out a marker near the middle, take all tension off the rod and glue in a dowel clamping till the glue dries. Then fit a new marker. I used t...

In forum Guitar ER - When Guitar Builds Go Bad

9 months ago
RE: How to treat this maple fretboard

@somethingnicer I used that on an oak fretboard, seems fine but it's also super easy to re apply later if need be.

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

10 months ago
RE: How to treat this maple fretboard

@russ I did and do, well, until it ran out lol.

In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips

10 months ago
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