@tv101 Happy Birthday TV. I will crack a Canadian wobbly pop for you tonight. And a far away LOL just to get the night going. 🙂

@tv101 We are all fired up for Carol having fibre broadband.

Should be there tomorrow Bill @rocknroller912 (was away last week).

@markbailey That was one of my big life-changing experiences, for which I will forever be grateful to you, for your confidence that - really - I could and would build a guitar, you patience, your incr...

@tv101 Happy birthday and that’s a nice looking guitar by the way. Hope to see you on the video chat tomorrow night.

Attachment : TV 01.JPG *update* it is 16 years old - 2007 vintage ! This beauty was the result of @tv101 's first visit to the Bailey Workshop ... seems like yesterday (and a hundred years ago)...

Right, sorted the space for the spoke wheel and routed the end of the fretboard to to accomadate. Attachment : 20230420_175207.jpg And now the fretboard is glued and clamped and I got the t...

Got a couple of bits done today, body sort of shaped, fretboard slotted, neck blank sorted and trussrod fitted. It's a spoke wheel trussrod though so I need to sort out the heel end for access. A...

I never thought I’d say this, but - Happy Days 🙂

@jamesbisset He said on the live he did on carving the neck. Initial facets are about a 3rd in at the heel then run the line down the neck with your finger aginst the side. Then about the fretboard th...

@nsj Because my sides aren’t profiled yet (and squint after the fingerboard mishap) I measured the facets 14.66mm out from the new centerline and then nudged them a couple of mm to the thumb side. But...

@jamesbisset That initial carve, instead of a 1/3 in on both sides, go in a 1/4 on one side and a 1/3 on the other. Or do a 1/3 in on each side at the nut then alter it further up. Is it musicman who ...

@jamesbisset Thanks for the recommendations and encouragement folks. I’ve decided to go on with the neck as it is. This is my first ever full build and it’s effectively a prototype. I’d rather keep ...

Thanks for the recommendations and encouragement folks. I’ve decided to go on with the neck as it is. This is my first ever full build and it’s effectively a prototype. I’d rather keep going and accum...

Hi James, take it off and start again. You’ll spend more time trying to compensate all the other parts than if you just strip the fretboard off and glue another one on in the right place. Going with a...

After some cleaning up on the heel and end blocks and adding an inwards curve ( approx 3 mm max depth ) towards the waist from the upper and lower bouts, to clear some space for the players hand and s...

Anyway, today I stopped by a friends joinery shop, he handed me some yew wood which looked interesting Attachment : 20230418_150428.jpg I took the piece on the left and trimmed it down, the...

@russ restless idiot for punishment you say? 🤣 🤣

There I was, tidying up my shed, wondering what I was going to do today. Next thing I know I have a body blank glued up! Oh well. guess I'll just have to build a guitar I suppose 🤣 Going fo...