Hi Mark, I hope your mum fully recovers fast and completely. No apologies needed at all, you make sure you take care of your family but also for yourself!

@markbailey I can only echo what other people here have said, I truly hope life take a turn for the better for your family soon. As for the forums, people here have helped me no end while you’ve had m...

I know a lot of American guitar builders use this as a top coat and finish for their instruments, and for a long time we haven't been able to get it in the UK, well thats all changed. For any of you t...

@tej I agree with @tv101 about the bad quality of cheap guitar kits. It’s only when I started building guitars from scratch that I really noticed how inaccurate parts of the cheap kits were. Surely it...

@rocknroller912 oddly I did something very similar but just rolled some sandpaper into a cone, it all worked out well, and the bridge is in the right place. Now it’s just the pick guard that needs rep...

Why cheapskate when we all want quality. @rocknroller912 Yeah that’s my philosophy on everything really. Buying anything cheap is usually bad quality and ends up being a false economy.

I've just been watching through Mark's Acoustic Build and saw how easy it is to use the Aquacoat. Great stuff. @russ Yeah it just glides on but you have to work fast as it dries so quickly. That’s a...

I think Boo has managed another 9k rep points in the last month @darrenking - you do realise that @Boo hacked the system a while back? His points get auto-doubled. So, if it shows 10k, he's really ...

I got my first Hero point from Mark on the 19/11/2018 for being the first person to upload a picture and I haven’t stopped since. Like I’ve said before, this place saved me so I like to maintain it at...

Two guitars repaired, grain filled and sanded; I still love this Aquacoat. They are now ready for primer which I will spray tomorrow after work. Guns all had a proper deep clean today as well. Can’t w...

By the way, is anyone else able to use the edit function for their posts, it doesn’t seem to work for me? @Tej - don't mention the Edit non-function ... 🤐 If it's a kit guitar, then I'm guess...

The last month or so has been a bit of a nightmare as some of you know. My mum was suddenly taken ill and needed emergency brain surgery - it was touch and go for a while and they really thought she m...

Might be the bridge out of position, or might be the neck pocket not cut correctly? @tv101 It’s a Tele copy, pretty sure it’s the bridge as it’s not parallel with the neck pickup which is parallel wi...

Tele - that makes it easier @Tej! How many screw holes fix the bridge to the body? Some are 3, some 5, some 6. I'd get the neck fixed in place, then draw lines from the outside edges of the neck over...

@tv101 thanks for the advice. Annoyingly none of the existing holes are reusable, they’re small too and I don’t have any small dowel. Pretty sure if I try to turn something that thin it’d just snap to...

Ooops, @rocknroller912 See above homie

I usually take before and after pics of repairs now so that if someone complains I can show it was like that from the factory. @rocknroller That’s good pratice. I always look over the guitar with th...

My favourite song today:

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment........ The Coolest Band Ever? 🎸🙂🎶🙏

One of my earliest influences John Mayall This was the first single record I ever bought!