Attachment : POCO7_Guitar1DesignBuild.jpg @boo, @roddy, @lionhound, @petej Welcome - this is an awesome forum...great support... I'm fairly new as well timewise several months - I've been onboard ...

Posted by: @frocesterbill Any recommendations - need to work well clean and dirty….. @frocesterbill Iron Gear are pretty good for the cheaper end of the scale. I’ve used them on many builds and I th...

I had visited the Iron Gear site - was worried they were too cheap……. I have used Bare Knuckles, SD, Creamery…. Also have a pair of Wilkinson Zebras in my Bandsman based build. All sound good…. Will p...

@frocesterbill: Iron Gear pickups are an inexpensive but excellent choice.. Pig Iron single coils or vintage 6TS.. perhaps combined with a Dirty Torque in the bridge. It all depends a bit on the style...

I am thinking of replacement for the Mexican Strat I sold last year. Three pickups - either three single core or pos two singles with a splittable humbucker in the bridge position. Any recommendatio...

Posted by: @swepri I think I will have to start a new build soon. Hard to resist when seeing other builds.. @swepri Yeah, go for it. I have chosen to make building guitars part of my life, I’m alway...

@boo Looking good! I think I will have to start a new build soon. Hard to resist when seeing other builds... 😀

I had a pop at the other neck today. I’ve blended the nut area into the headstock and rounded all the corners over with various grades of sandpaper. The whole headstock is sanded to p320 grade now. Th...

@roddy Good for you, glad you enjoyed your visit. Welcome to the forum and I look forward to seeing pictures of your design drawing and maybe of the building process.

@russ Thanks! Going for a tele style with single coils.

I visited Bailey guitars workshop on Friday for a guitar design session with Mark. I really enjoyed my visit, being in the workshop and seeing the guitars, as well as chatting to Mark and Carol who ar...

I’ve had a couple of days off from guitar making to move some more stuff out of the house but I couldn’t resist carving the nut area into the headstock on one of these necks. I thought I would do the ...

Posted by: @petejb Mark Twain, a classic American Humorist once quipped "Don't let your schoolin' interfere with your education". Words to live by and words that I live by. I have learned more from m...

Posted by: @boo Posted by: @petejb No worries mate, I am an engineer who was a young student in the (failed) US pilot program to convert to metric in the early 70's. I'm fluent in both actually an...

@boo wow. Those look really cool. 🙂

I’ve yet to carve them but I couldn’t resist offering them up to have a look how they might look. I like it so far. Attachment : 1E5ACE4A-4912-4342-96B3-A5686774A946.jpeg Attachment : 5D14...

I’ve still got a long way to go but these necks are starting to look good with their respective bodies. I’m going to use all gold hardware on both of them, I think it would be rude not to. Attachm...

Keep going @bpower, it’ll work out. 💪

Posted by: @abbbbbottttt I’ve correctly got a new question stuck in Awaiting Moderation. Is this related? @abbbbbotttt I think the best thing would be to email. 👍

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