@steveadams I had a bit of a learning opportunity when I fitted my bridge. I had drilled my test hole on a bit of scrap using my pillar drill, the post fitted perfectly. When went to drill the body, ...

Hi Steve You also mention that the bridge should be offset from the scale length line by 1.5mm and 4.5mm, Just as Boo and Clinton said, your line at 6mm from the scale line is where you drill your p...

That sounds like a wise decision Dodgedude. Have a look through my post "First Practice Build" and learn from my mistakes, most of them when using the router.

@tv101 There's a guy in the US talks a good wall-build - and he's looking for a new job. If he can get my neighbour to pay for it, then the job is his.

@boo maybe you could use some marital politics to negotiate a spare bedroom Unfortunately she had persuaded me to convert our spare room into a guest bedroom before I started making guitars. But she...

@tv101 I’ve got an oil filled rad in my workshop Oh, the luxury of electricity, it'll never catch on.

I'm so envious of you Boo, an indoor workspace, what a luxury. It's a bit chilly out in my lockup.

@peebee Thanks for your compliment, I impressed myself with what I managed to build. Hopefully I shouldn't have too many mistakes to document on my next build, I'll try my best not to repeat any, no ...

Welcome to group Paul. I hope you can get back to work soon, we all need to go on holiday. Meanwhile turn your scrap pine into a guitar, thats what happened when I started just practicing techniques w...

Iv'e just had another learning opportunity. I sprayed a clear lacquer onto my headstock / truss rod cover and some areas of the decals fizzed up. I had tried a test piece and it seemed okay, but afte...

@tv101 the headstock is as big as it needs to be, and no bigger. I might have to add a little bump on the end to have room for my logo, I hadn't really thought that one through.

built loads of partscasters Hi Peter, welcome to the group. When I first found Mark's livestreams I thought that I would build a partscaster and that would get it out of my system. Once I'd gathered...

That looks good Clinton. You can get very narrow masking tape that model makers use, that might be good to mask off the fret wires while you lacquer the fretboard.

@boo Are you going to seal them in with some clear coat? Yes I'll be spraying the face of the headstock and the truss rod cover with a clear coat. Hopefully that should make the surround of the tra...

@russ Did you make the transfers yourself I bought the waterslide paper and used Windows Paint to draw the logos, then printed on an inkjet printer. You have to spray them with a clear coat before y...

@tv101 I designed it with the aim of keeping the strings as straight as sensibly possible This is headstock style I'm using in my next build, the strings don't get much straighter than that. Atta...

@tv101 My next build that I'm drawing up now has narrower tapered headstock, based on a Tanglewood Tomkat that I have. It's similar to the Bailey headstock too, and like you say, not so much space the...

@tv101 Truss Rod cover logo looks neat The truss rod cover has a bit of your veneer on it, left over from the same piece that I used for the headstock. The gibson style headstock has plenty space fo...

I've been playing around with inkjet watersllde transfers the last few days, the instructions are a poor translation from Chinese, so they're open to a bit of interpretation. Apparently once applied, ...

@94dodgedude Is this your first build, I'm a novice, just putting the finishing touches to my first build now. I've made lots of mistakes along the way. My advice would be to watch all the videos on M...