Posted by: @rathius I’m quite jealous of you guys that get to just “walk up” to Mark’s shop for a visit. I’ll have to build and sell several before I get to experience the Scottish countryside. @rat...

@poco7 that’s a great looking design - impressed you’re set up to build it at home. Lots of great support on here - inspiring me to build the design I did with Mark last week!

Welcome to the forum @roddy, you’ll love it here! That shot of you at the bench is great, it’s a view the rest of us haven’t seen for quite a while as Mark hasn’t been doing vids for some time now. Pe...

Posted by: @poco7 I'm working on a kinda-sorta Gibson Les Paul style for my FIRST build. @poco7 Looking good there man, nice work. 👍

Question for @markbailey please Have you seen this cracking paint effect before on a guitar? I think you probably will have. A friend of mine has painted a guitar and when he has hammered the bridge...

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Posted by: @russ 😂🎸🎶🙏 @russ That meeting may not end on a good note. Maybe they should scale it back a bit. 😉

Stuck in the house after tripping over a pot hole and injuring my hand and found this . Decided it’s my next song to learn now that live music has started again.

To clarify, I bought (from StewMac) medium/high fret wire as opposed to medium/medium. This means that not only is the crown higher but also the tang is longer.

@wayne_f I would agree with @tej there, it looks like the ends are in, so the slot must be deep enough. I'm assuming that you're hammering them in and not pressing them. If you're hammering while su...

Here's an overdue progress update video:

Looks good @wayne_f. On the next fillet just get it close but not fitting in the slot. Then sand it to the final thickness with a sanding block to get the snug fit you want.

@Wayne_F @robinSomehow that never occurred to me. I could add maybe 1/4" of height and that would probably take care of it. Thank you. I've had a lot of help and advice from this group, I'm glad to ...

Here's a short update on progress. More will be happening very shortly.

@poco7 That's awesome that you found someone not too far who could cut you a blank that's more than big enough. The one I ordered was advertised as 4X4 but it's actually 4-1/16 thick X 3-7/8 wide. Oh ...

Welcome @riccardo. I've been a part of this community for 8 months now and I am currently in the middle of my second acoustic guitar build. The entire build process seems very daunting but Mark has th...

@poco7 Hi from sunny Scotland, that's an epic post there and a lot to answer. So I'll make a start and I'm sure the rest of the gang will join in. NOTE: The .pdf i downloaded from GM for the list: "...

@poco7 Try printing to A4 but with your printer set to "print actual size" , it may be set at "print to fit page" and upsetting the scale.

So, for the sake of all the other newbies on here, can someone please gives us instructions on making an oily rag? lint free? Cotton? Acrylic? Three-in-one? Engine oil? Where does WD40 fit in? @james...

The neck is far from trashed - there's plenty of time for that later... After the neck is carved there is normally only about 3-4mm of wood left under the truss rod at the thinnest point: If the truss...