After glueing together the the two main pieces for the top, there were a couple of places where there hadn’t been a full coming together of the two faces. I could see that over time this could become ...

@nickkuk I’ve been considering this for some time now and I thought I would wait until I knew where in the room I was going to put the bench. If I was putting it against a wall, I would put some diago...

Are you going to diagonally strut or put sides on to prevent movement?

@nsj Very nice work as usual. I would be tempted to route a shallow recess for the bridge to sit in rather than install a different bridge. All your screw holes and alignment is already there, it’s ea...

@nsj That one turned out great!

Finished at last, well ish lol. Found a high fret I missed, I often miss just the one. Anyway sorted that, still need to lower the nut a little too. Other thing is the string height is about 3mm at th...

@markbailey @cazdaz thank you both for the replies and for sorting the issue, it's much appreciated. Hopefully I will be able to resubscribe in the future 🙂

Pre glue up, it shows the rough shape (note it's not completely aligned in the photo and there is a deliberate oversize). Attachment : IMG_1935.jpg

Hi @nortski - am responding here just in case - I cannot find any mails or contact forms (will get the web guys to look into this) but I can see that you did pause your membership but somehow it has...

@nortski HI there - this is Carol on Marks account ;)- really sorry to hear this - we get messages most days and reply asap - today we got the notification of this message ... apologies also for FB m...

@robin Hi Robin. Ideally you want the grain running top to bottom on the end on your neck blank (quarter sawn). 🙏🎶🙂🎸

@cafebrouge hey, nice guitars! Similarly, I can't help with advice on specific groups, but you will find a lot of helpful knowledge in the members of this forum. It might be worth floating your questi...

No way you're a Glasscock. My grandmother was a Glasscock, are you kin to any Pearsons or Thomases?

So I worked on getting the top ready to glue down today, but it's not gonna go together easily. I flexed the top a little today, and heard a little pop but can't find a crack or split yet. I'm gonna t...

@robin Hi Robin, I've seen it done both ways. Some have said that it can be better if the grain is running up and down on the block rather than running across in the same direction as the sides. It ca...

@nsj I had a bit of an experiment with acetone just on making a binding repair glue, to hide gaps and repair chips rather than fix the binding to the fretboard. I found cellulose dissolves quicker tha...

@liebe I was concerned about slot depth, slots being clean, getting to much glue on and it choking the slots etc etc lol Might try the acetone next time. Supposed to work well and of course it doesn't...

@nsj totally 😅. The little hosco fret saws are amazing, but it still takes a while. I used uhu Hart glue. I got it from Rothko and it worked pretty well. Turns out it sets quite hard too ...

@liebe For sure, without it you can use a regular fret saw lol What glue did you use? I found out the hard way that wood glue doesn't work with plastic binding lol. Superglue was fine though and did...

@nsj cheers, yes I've got one of those. Just a bit more fiddly with binding than without!