And good to see you (and everyone else) still here @Russ! I've been doing no building at all in the last year-ish, so it seemed a bit fraudulent to be posting on a guitar making forum! But JimBo me...

Excellent. To be fair, that was implied by your titling of this thread ("my first laminated semi-hollowbody" implies that you were planning a second and maybe a third, fourth, fifth and more), so rea...

No mishap. It’s been on the drawings from the beginning. How could I, a simple brute peasant, reference the classic elegance and sophistication of D’Angelico and D’Aquisto? Simples. A wee hole. Almo...

@robin You’re a bad man 😉 My darling wife told me not to be such a fussy bugger. and I’ve decided this is a prototype - a proof of concept. But I really need to work on these slipping glue jo...

@jamesbisset The edges glued well, with no gaps, but of course the back moved when I wasn’t looking. It’s cosmetic, because without a centreline you wouldn’t know but grrrr... If the misaligned cen...

@tv101 I'm trying to workout what mishap occurred that needed the "decorative hole" at the top as a fix??? I'm guessing that it might have been a nail hole.

I'm trying to workout what mishap occurred that needed the "decorative hole" at the top as a fix???

After an extended hiatus, I went back to the workshop to glue on the back. Attachment : IMG_0246.jpeg I made a couple of MDF clamping rings to help distribute the pressure and hold everything i...

That was pretty much how I did mine, and it worked fine. I used a roundover cutter rather than sanding a chamfer (using the router allowed me to make a wonderful mistake, that's another story) and the...

Attachment : 20240507_114911.png Attachment : 20240507_114935.png FYI - Tele body blank routed to become a Tele Custom using 5mm black plexi as a template cut on laser cutter using Lightbur...

Nice one Neil, I seem to remember reading about copper bodied guitars somewhere and thinking they looked pretty cool. Are you going to use a wooden centre block? It will be very interesting to hear wh...

I think my next build is going be a ukulele, my granddaughter has taken an interest. Attachment : 20240504_152717.jpg

Hi everybody, i am new to this forum, please be kind. Can anybody inform me. as to. where in the UK i can buy the above. Regards Ray

Welcome to the forum. Have you tried looking on Amazon, ebay or an online car paint supplier.

After recently getting an all new heating system installed I ended up with the old copper tank from the attic and had a crazy thought. What about making a guitar from it? First things first I cut the ...

@russ cheers, wait and see my next build lol!

Well that's my 2nd bass sorted Attachment : 20240422_145100.jpg Attachment : 20240422_145136.jpg Attachment : 20240422_145156.jpg Attachment : 20240422_145205.jpg Atta...

Thank you guys 🙂 Yeah i watched the complete build videos....twice.Watching those made me want to try and build myself.Very inspiring!

@bjarni hi and welcome. There's quite a lot on the youtube channel too under the live heading. Mark did a fair bit of streaming when covid was on the loose. He shows doing a complete build amongst oth...

@bjarni Hi Martin, Maybe you would be better asking those questions on the Build Your Own Electric Guitar forum to reach a wider audience. I must confess to using fretboards supplied by Mark for the t...