Hi all! I hope everyone is well 🙂 Flippin’ eck! Ok, I know I’m trying a few new things out on this one (bound fretboard, bolt on neck, Floyd Rose), but you’re supposed to try new things to learn, righ...

@koendb and by the way, I forgot to mention in my reply - that’s a really nice looking, very classic Flying V, I love it!

Thanks @boo, for your many wise words 😀 It certainly is part if the fun to fix the problems that arise as well as to solve challenges - most of my challenges came from my own inadequacies wit...

@koendb doing the sums is easy enough, but i wanted a visual representation, and I hadn’t found one online. The fretfind2d one looks great though - thank you for the pointer! cheers Steve

@koendb yeah, they are! My rubyburst was a kit, but I decided that I didn’t like the pickguard, and moved the control cavity from the front of the guitar to the back. Also, the nut had to come off and...

Hi all, i guess most people have their own ways of marking and cutting fret slots ranging from measuring individually to using some quite nicely designed jigs, but I thought I’d share something that I...

Hey there, everyone! So, the project guitar is finished (for a given value of „finished“ - there are some details to take care of yet). But it´s built and it plays nicely - certainly better than the d...

@swepri there‘s some trigonometry that can help here (based on the assumption that you can cut the 12“ radius perfectly). For a 56mm wide fretboard, the edges would have about 1.3mm removed. So if you...

Posted by: @markbailey @steveh Good call...I think that is the best course of action. Once you have the methods down you will be unstoppable 👍 Hi Mark, So, I finally got round to re-drawin...

@markbailey Hi Mark, thanks for your comments. To be honest, I wasn't sure about the high fret access. It's prompted a bit of a re-think on my part, and I've decided to follow your designs more closel...

@markbailey Hi Mark, thank you for your reply. I should have mentioned it beforehand, but the Aria had a bolt on neck. Is that going to be a problem while following the course? As far as the pickups ...

Posted by: @koendb @steveh Early in the 80's, I must have been around 13 or 14 then, I had an Aria Sunburst Strat copy. I remember swapping it with a cheaper knockoff because I wanted a black one ca...

So, when I was a lot younger, I had one of these: Attachment : x145btafmhaosblung4w.jpg It's an Aria ET 240, a 70s Japanese sort of copy of a LP Junior double cut. It had quite nice tone, and w...

Thanks for the welcome, everybody. I will set up a project page once I get going. I've got something in mind already 🙂

Posted by: @rocknroller912 @boo @steveh Ive had a bike in my garage for 25 years and never found it to be a problem with woodwork. Bike gets cleaned in the driveway and only sits there, so why solve ...

Hi everyone, so, after months of dithering, I finally signed up today. I’ve always been happy tinkering with guitars, got my hands dirty by restoring a rather battered RG 7420, including re-sanding fr...