From my experience, the main challenges are making it compact while still feeling like a “real” instrument. Watch the neck joint strength, tuner placement, and overall weight distribution because a sm...

Hi @JojoPG and welcome to the forums👍😃 You’ve certainly chosen well in joining here, Mark’s courses are great and easy to follow and there’s a wealth of experience you can tap into on ...

Hey everyone, Joining here per a recommendation. After painting, modding and setting up my own guitars over the past year I realised there was nothing stopping me from building my own. As a lefty, all...

@rib-f there's no doubt you'll make some errors along the way but yeh, it's a learning process. These days mistakes don't phase me in the slightest, I just assess the situation and come up with a plan...

@nsj I hogged out the bulk of the material before hand. I worked out to angle the bit & lower it gently after the first cut . Maybe my cut was a bit deeper than it should have been. I guess all ...

@rib-f I angle the router and then lower it while moving, I find it pretty controllable. You can also use a forstner bit to hog some of the material out first which can make things easier. I just make...

Attachment : guityar.jpg @nsj Thank you very much for your response. That clears up a few things. I am mainly using a palm router &, like you I have a 200mm acrylic base I have made to scre...

On this question, the 23mm measurement is almost certainly the neck shaft before the fretboard is added, measured at the heel. A typical separate fretboard is usually around 6–6.5mm thick before radiu...

Hi peeps, it's a been a loooooooooong time since I've posted here but I finally have a bit of breathing space to start a new build and was contemplating making a small travel electric. Essentially thi...

Have you started the build yet? When thicknessing a neck blank I always leave an extra 1mm, so if aiming for 21mm at the 1st I'll take it down to 22mm. You can lose 1mm easily by the time you've radi...

Could you explain what you mean by shimming it please?  

@benjaminschwillens82gmail-com Thanks that vid was very useful.  

Hello, new member here, just attempting my first guitar build. Lots of questions.

Mahogany and cedar are great, for making a guitar that sounds warm and nice. Mahogany and cedar guitars are very responsive. When you start building your guitar it helps you understand the things you ...

That’s a mix of materials. The yew and resin body with a sipo mahogany top must look really cool. The flamed maple neck and ebony board is a touch. I can see why you like the P90s. They are good, at b...

This renaissance lute is really worth the wait. The people making this renaissance lute pay a lot of attention to details from history. They do a lot of work by hand. This makes the renaissance lute b...

@benjaminschwillens82gmail-com   Thanks again, that makes sense. I will have to wait until I have bought a fret board before I can move the neck on. The drop top I bought is very nice but t...

A Telecaster is a choice for a first build because its simple to design and theres lots of information out there to help you. My idea of using a veneer can work well if I glue it properly and support ...

@rib-f Yeah, you need to add the thickness of the fretboard and the thickness of the neck together and thats the thickness of the neck. For exmple the neck is 21mm at the headstock - fretboard 6.5mm ...