I recently got into this band, there are so good! A really nice live performance! A shame that Duane died so young. My favorite song at the moment. Louis

I recently got into this band, there are so good! A really nice live performance! A shame that Duane died so young. My favorite song at the moment. Check this out Louis........ 🙂🎸...

Another top tip, mask off your nice light coloured maple neck while handling razor sharp snipped fretwires with frozen fingers, it keeps the blood stains off. @robin My workshop isn’t heated either s...

Another satisfying moment carving the vellute today. I watched the course video again last night, then followed Mark's instructions and the vellute miraculously appeared. Attachment : 20210106_182...

Hi all! I did some more work on the guitar, some sanding and stuff. I will be installing the fretboard soon. I was thinking about giving my guitar a personal touch. I would like to have my name or s...

I wonder if anyone else has experimented with making shielding paint. @rocknroller912 I haven’t actually made any or experimented with making any but I have looked into it before. It is all inexpens...

Michael Schenker had mental health issues along with other related horrors, to contend with - on one occasion he was so excited to be joining the Scorpions on stage, that he smashed his favourite Flyi...

Hi Everyone, I hope everyone is doing allright. Today i did some neck carving and routed the neck pocket. I also cut out the shape, it starts to look like a guitar. I also have a picture of the assemb...

@jamesbisset Yes, oblique/italic whatever it’s called idk I fell asleep in typography class 😄 Don’t get me wrong, the logo looks great but to my eye things tend to look better a bit slanted. I...

Hello everyone I am back! I finished my exams and they went well, so now i have time to continue my build. In de meantime i cut the pickup rout and the control cavity. My controls will be mounted on m...

No surprises here: Attachment : 9FAAD81D-1BF8-4D9C-9609-4351801F94B6.jpeg

My wife knitted a warm scarf for me.

it looks interesting @boo I now know what Mark means when he says that the 335 is a completely different beast from either a solid or an archtop, despite being a hybrid of both. I think I might be in...

Hi Marcel My wife knitted a warm scarf for me. My wife knitted me a warm jumper. I encourage her to keep knitting, just so I can point out that I've only made one guitar while she's been knitting al...

I got one of these. Beautifully packaged and can't wait to use it 😃 Attachment : 20201227_120038.jpg

My thoughts on pickup winding are that I can just try some of the variables and see what they sound like - vary number of winds, wire thickness and material, magnet type and strength, coil taps (as op...

My buddy Osceola set me up here! Hopefully I'll get a guitar or two built in 2021. Looks like a great source for the amateur luthier. Hope everyone has a great New Year, Robbie

Guys, I am gutted, I am going to miss the last Livestream because I have to go veneer shopping!! I might try to tune in via my phone at some point but if I don't make it then Merry Christmas to one an...

Yeah, rock was everywhere back then! I like a lot of different music and even some current stuff 😆 but man, those were the days! I was really into KISS before I was 10 but I suspect their imag...

Hi Rocknrollermy guitar making adventure had been a long time coming until I found Mark’s courses. It was an amazing and life changing discovery and it had been a dream since I was a teenager. All the...