@seanf I also converted the box room in the house into a small indoor workshop, it’s great in the winter. I stripped the room of everything, decorated and used the top off an old wardrobe to make a wo...

@seanf Just to give you another bench idea or two. In my garage/workshop I took an old pallet, screwed some legs to it with strengthening braces and put a big piece of MDF on top. This was all scrap ...

@rocknroller912 , @tej Thank you for your insight! I certainly will keep in mind to ask questions when they come up around tools also. Luckily I have sourced someone with a Router I can borrow initial...

@wolframmalukker Very nice indeed, keep going. 👍

@wolframmalukker That Macassar Ebony is going to nice looking fretboards. You're so lucky having such a well equipped workshop and SolidWorks too. I used SolidWorks in a previous life and still had a...

Those are going to be nice looking fretboards @wolframmalukker!

Got my fretboard material in today, and set up the bandsaw for resawing down to the right thickness. It's Macassar Ebony, and it was very inexpensive for the board I bought. (MUCH less than any rosewo...

Posted by: @marcel I have used a shim to adjust the neck angle a couple of times. I just put in a small strip of veneer in the back of the neck pocket. It's a matter of trying what the thickness of t...

That gives me a better working height

I’ve been using a Blacker and Decker workbench since 1982 and bought a second one a few years ago in a sale but I do find I get back pain now so I tend to work standing up using a T board held in a be...

@boo Thanks for the great suggestion, I have one of those, but didn't even think about getting another one and making a table out of it, that will certainly be much more of a quicker start up for the ...

Posted by: @boo but the trestle table is adequate to start with. I can confirm. I still use mine , as I dont have anything else at the moment. I only use our heavy garden table ( heavy stone surface...

@seanf Welcome to you Sean. Whatever you decide to do first, you will find help here. As far as a bench goes, I used two trestle type things and a big sheet of MDF for my first work bench (see pictur...

Welcome @seanf. You're going to love it. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

@rocknroller912 brilliant! I certainly will if I find any more issues with it 🙂

@seanf If you have any repairs to your old guitar other than fretting, which is covered in Marks course, post them on the forum first and you can get a few opinions on the best way to proceed.

@rocknroller912 I bought some fret wire a few months ago just off amazon before I had done much research into the subject, I have Dunlop accu-fret jumbo size. I am unsure whether I will still use thos...

@markbailey I am quickly weighing on the side of just starting one from scratch, I might give the fretting a go and see how I get on until I have the rest of the tools!

@seanf Welcome to the forum. Repairs are much harder than building from new, especially on cheap factory instruments. Often they use glue that can’t be taken apart so te whole thing breaks. Where are ...

Welcome Sean! £20 guitars are great for starting on but I highly recommend building from scratch - in some ways it is easier than repairing...and you'll learn so much. I am biased obviously ...