Use a hand saw if you’re only making one guitar

@hursty Hey Hursty, welcome to the forum and congrats on buying your first Bailey Bandsman guitar kit. You will find loads of help here in the forum so whenever you run into problems or concerns, just...

Cheers Boo 👍

I've no experience of wood working at all so this could be a disaster or a new love. I was there, many years ago. When you say "no" experience - I did have experience of wood working, but all of it h...

Welcome @hursty I used to live in Leeds many moons ago, my god I love Yorkshire. Anyways, I'm right there with you on the no experience, or at least nothing since GCSE CDT, of course this all shows wi...

Hi all, After much pondering I took the plunge and became a premium member and ordered a standard Bandsman kit. 😀 I've no experience of wood working at all so this could be a disaster or a ne...

But I can't help thinking that Charlie Chandler (one of the world's best guitar techs and a pretty decent luthier to boot) and his Plek machine are half an hour away on a good day, and I'm never going...

@tv101, I cook pretty well, and when it comes to driving so long as I actually get to the destination the most important aspect has been achieved equally well. it's the conflict of the builder in me v...

The objective of guitar building for me is not to build a better guitar than Mr P R Smith, or Mr M Bailey, it’s just to learn and get a bit better with each one, improving my skills along the way ... ...

Completely get your point @jonhodgson. it's the conflict of the builder in me vs the player in me. For me, those are two different - but obviously closely related - interests. I don't expect to be...

Robocop Bitches, leave...

Robocop ....Dick, You're FIRED!

Hey @boo. Do you think the electrically powered version work as well as the compressor type? 🤔 I have the electric version - works very good indeed @Russ

@jonhodgson Thanks, I looked it up earlier after not getting a real answer, but @robin came through with some info at least! When you guys use a term I don’t understand I’ll look it up. This time I fi...

The origins of calling a rubbish cart a skip (most often found in Australia, New Zealand and the UK) come from the word skep, used to refer to a basket. Skep itself comes from the Late Old English sce...

@boo, on a more serious note, I haven't followed every post so you may have answered his already. Is that a mist coat so you could see where you've sanded.

**Could not wait** This primer is fully gassed off and ready to sand so that’s what I did. I think I’ve got the coverage I wanted over the neck joint. There are a couple of little spots I need to tou...

Why do you weirdos guys call it a skip? @mattbeels because calling it a milk bottle would be silly.

I’ll be renting a skip soon @boo Why do you weirdos guys call it a skip?

I hope it works out with your invisible neck joint! @mattbeels Yeah I hope it works but we’ll see, it may not.