After some test fitting of the neck and careful placement of the neck plate, I marked the holes for main neck screws. I then drilled them out carefully on the drill press. Attachment : DB070146-1A...

With the nature of Spalted wood being inconsistent and unpredictable, it has to be stabilised. I did this by applying CA glue (super glue) liberally and spreading it around with an old credit card. I ...

Time to laminate the Spalted Maple top to the Ash body blank. I just lined up the centre lines after applying the glue and used lots of clamps and weights, and used some strategically placed screws an...

Before laminating the Spalted Maple top to the body blank, I wanted to route some channels for the pickup wiring from the pickup cavities to the control cavity. To help prevent the glue from filling t...

I thought I’d take a break from the neck and start to look at the body woods, I had a beer whilst contemplating. Attachment : 4F2CA736-352B-4586-AFD4-38B03430E2DD.jpeg Attachment : 73408E99...

Time to put the truss rod in, glue a fillet in, plane the excess off when dry and put the fretboard on. This was held in place with clamps and a caul and a couple of pins for alignment whilst the glu ...

As the design of this neck needs a curved transition from the headstock to the fretboard, I used a spindle sander to achieve that. Common sense told me that I couldn’t just put the neck on the machine...

I used a jig and a router with an extended base plate to surface route the front face of the headstock. This is a parallel headstock with the neck (not angled back like a Les Paul) like a Tele or Stra...

I used my drill press to drill the holes for the tuners in the headstock. Attachment : C660A7DF-05F4-403D-9D00-7FCD929411DF.jpeg

Routed the truss rod slot. Attachment : BBB343F6-B29F-4F7F-938E-7A58E91E6750.jpeg

Marked out the neck and double checked all measurements. Attachment : EAA6680F-37F5-47F3-9E5C-031FBA169561.jpeg Attachment : D6C181A2-8826-4A93-AF55-F5C1404F12CF.jpeg

I made some different patterns for this build that were different that the ones used on my original Bailey Bandsman build. I wanted a better bench for this job so I made a sturdier one from an old pal...

Of course, first I made a 1:1 design of the whole thing. Attachment : 61FAA43D-14DA-4428-8C76-7EC69C760AD2.jpeg

Posted by: @russ Which end are you going to have the Truss Rod access @russ Headstock end on both of them.

Very sad news indeed, fly high Taylor. ❤️

Our guru @markbailey reminded me recently to make a drawing for a project I’m planning. For the last few builds I have developed a habit of just making guitars without doing the drawings first. It has...

@boo that was pretty cool. 🙂

@boo Sounds great boo.

Here is a short video of my customer enjoying his new guitar, he is very happy with it. 💛🤘😁🤘🎸🐝🖤

Posted by: @clinton Exactly! Thats what I did. The last bass I made was actually based on a Bandsman shape with a slightly larger scale and a much longer upper horn for a much better balance of a lon...