@tv101 No preamp, no battery. Life is complicated enough.

Posted by: @jamesbisset ↑ Position 1 Position 2 Position 3 Position 4 Position 5 I'd go with position 1, I'm more of a traditionalist.

JimBee - welcome home Darling, how was your day? MrsJimBee - oh, you know, usual stuff, what about your day JimBee - I've been experimenting with some different positions MrsJimBee - 😯 ὢ...

Well the guitar is all back together again and working. There seemed to be a random earthing problem and some tremendous hum. Eventually switched off the laptop charger, that had me going for a while,...

That must have been quite something to have seen @jamesbisset - quite jealous of you oldies sometimes.

Position 1 Attachment : position 1.JPG Attachment : position 1.mp3 Position 2 Attachment : position 2.JPG Attachment : position 2.mp3 Position 3 Attachment : positi...

And that’s why I’ve got a K&K Big Twin to fit inside the guitar body. Two pickups - where should they go? I’ve run a few tests just to see. I stood an electric guitar on top of the guitar body, a...

Oh yes. The Cunning Plan. Another reason for building this guitar is the attempt to smuggle an electric guitar into all those Acoustic Bliss / Folk Night / Open Mic sessions. As we know, all acoustic ...

I can't see that they'd hurt - so for the sake of another couple of slots in the neck and a few£ of carbon fibre bar, I see no reason *not* to do it. Of course, you'd have to use the correct, acoustic...

@tv101 do you believe carbon rods actually do anything? That somehow they'll stop a neck from twisting if it wants to? Personally I think it's a fad to sell us guitar people more stuff we don't need l...

You should do all the routing for the trem before carving the body. You can mark it out accurately enough from a drawing if you have one. The final positioning of the trem comes from the 2 (or 6 for v...

@rathius and all, I do have more pictures of my progress with this build, I thought I’d updated but obviously not. I’ve still not completed this build but it just needs putting together. It’s all in b...

@boo love what you’ve done with this. Plus purple and gold are my alma mater colors. 😁

Finally got this Jimi Strat in its flow coats today. It can cure for a couple of weeks before the final flat and polish. I’ll shut up about it now until I’m putting hardware on it. Attachment : 4...

I went on Amazon and bought these. Attachment : IMG_0592.png Attachment : IMG_0591.png Yeaterday I used them for the first time. It was also the first time I ever routed any tremolo cavi...

Interesting to re-read this thread. I've got a neck-blank sized piece of Ash, quarter-sawn and not too heavy which I think I might just use on a future neck build. But maybe with some added carbon fi...

@tej Ash makes a beautiful neck, done a few myself with zero issues but I always do a volute which may or may not help. Northern/european ash. It's the denser , heavier hard one. Southern ash aka swam...

@mattbeels well sadly, after all this time I still have two pieces of ash for a body and some that I can use for a neck and no time to spend making a guitar out of it all. Since squired som mahogany t...

@rocknroller912 Yes, Swamp Ash.

@robin There's nae Irn Bru