@jamesbisset Pay attention to Mr Bailey and don’t show off to friends

Having (relatively) successfully made two sides, a front and a back, I carted the whole lot home to rest in this old, cold, damp house. Mr Bailey was surprisingly insistent that I keep the sides bound...

Exactly what I was beginning to think. However, the advantage of the concave mould is twofold: Darren (Bagpress) said it was better that way You can make the mould the same size as the front or back,...

@tv101 With poor state of my fingers at the moment, calling anything after them is sure to end in failure. For your carve top I would rough out the carving with a cnc but do the final finishing with ...

@jamesbisset So, the back went into the vacuum press, this time glued with a slow cure urea resin, and you heard me say on the video there were a couple of creaks. Sure enough, the next morning reve...

Congratulations! This has proved to be a more troublesome task than I’d anticipated. Watching Darren’s videos, it all seemed fairly straightforward and error-proof. But I guess experts make things l...

Come on Jim, this is serious, not one of your songs … 🤣 🤣

@poco7 Are you thinking maybe removing the fretboard and building up the neck? like a taper? From your descriptions, my first thought was to remove the fretboard board and raise it up. I hadn't con...

@poco7 I’d love to help you out if at all possible but I have no experience with resonators or slide guitars yet. I’m also a visual learner so I must be able to see what the problem is, I don’t really...

@robin Are you thinking maybe removing the fretboard and building up the neck? like a taper?

@robin good thought, hmmmmn...maybe....have to ponder that for awhile...thanks <><

@poco7 sounds like the neck angle is the problem. Can you re set it

@jamesbisset Pleased you are getting somewhere at last, however you still need a foolproof method that works for teaching beginners.Ive thought about this since we chatted last week. I would be incli...

With some anxiety, I tackled the front lamination. I was so concerned about the way the back had split that I cut apart the book-matched front face veneer and planed the edges again before joining (ag...

Never mind. Let’s get on with the easy stuff. The neck! Attachment : IMG_8927.JPG Attachment : IMG_8928.JPG Attachment : IMG_8930.JPG

@tv101 I’m making this up as I go along. It just seemed like a simple way to persuade the joined veneers not to split along my dodgy glue line. As usual, I was wrong.

And some people (not me, obviously, but "some people") say that your videos aren't exciting!! Particularly highlight for me was from 0:42 to 0:51 - great work! What's the rationale for leaving the v...

@jamesbisset So, just for you, here’s some video of a vacuum pump. That looks like it might be successful this time, fingers crossed.

Thanks for this @jamesbisset. 🎶🎸🙏🙂

Turns out some of you have short attention spans and don’t like all this talk of veneers. So, just for you, here’s some video of a vacuum pump.