Thanks for that Mark – another part of guitar building that seems so simple once you’ve broken it down to the step-by-step process.
 
Maybe I’ll go buy a saw from Small Wonder.  Probably better than using the bandsaw.
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Posted by: @johnbarr2004 As I live in Austria I do the Bailey courses on-line, and my house is now full of guitars. Do you keep yours, sell them, give them away?  Are you “AustrianJohn” on another UK guitar forum?  …   Read more»

Posted by: @markbailey   Its beautiful!   Not sure I’d quite call it beautiful, but thanks Mark! I found a slight “operational inconvenience” when using it.  To clamp the sides of the cap in place, you need to get the…   Read more»

Posted by: @johnbarr2004 Wow – what a fantastic guitar collection!   Posted by: @frocesterbill You’ve been busy – lovely lot of guitars…… Been on two Baileys workshop courses and hope to do another next year.  Agree about the friendliness of…   Read more»

Wow – thats really nice. I am always in awe of people who make acoustics.  To my mind, that’s *proper* woodworking skill.  The accuracy and tiny tolerances that you have to work to … that’s a different skill set.  …   Read more»

That’s a lot of helpful detail on the build. I keep thinking that I should try a thru-neck sometime – I guess the cigar box guitar that I actually built in the shape of a firebird a few weeks back…   Read more»

Posted by: @frocesterbill What dimensions approx?   HI Bill The base board is made from some old kitchen worktop, so it’s as deep (ie front to back) as the worktop was (600mm?) I then grabbed some caps and just set…   Read more»

… and then I tried it out with a sanding bar on a nice top …
 
 

Which is going to fit on top of this body (made earlier) …
 
 

Build #1 taught me that I *could* build a guitar.  To be honest, and despite all the assurances from Mark and Carol prior to the course, I’d never really believed that I *could*, so that was a big step. But…   Read more»

Back at home, in my very own shed, my first build was a cheat.     A (Cherry) Tele – because guitars don’t get much simpler – with I think a bought-in neck. You can call me a cheat if…   Read more»

And self-build #2 …    Yes, it’s another Cherry Tele.   But this one was a little more adventurous, being a chambered Tele body and my own neck.  You can tell it’s my own neck, because I *always* put the…   Read more»

I built a few more Teles, but that bit of the journey is like a train trip through some really boring countryside.  Best skipped over. Back to Mark’s workshop for Build #3.  This was just a self-treat, an excuse for…   Read more»

So of course there have been more …
 

 
… and as soon as I can work out how to embed more images from a different image hosting site, I’ll be back with some more photos …

… back with some more!  These are a mixture of builds and saves – guitars rescued after someone else had got a so far, and then realised that something had gone a little awry on their way there    A…   Read more»