This is My Favourite Song For This Moment...... 🙏🎶🎸🙂

Two weeks ago I played at a local festival with the John Spijker Trio. The sound quality of the clip is not very good, but it gives an idea of the music we play. This is one of John's songs "Tame my m...

I watched this - from the ‘factory that shall not be mentioned’ Mark thinks that it could be one of his necks……

Worlds collide! Apologies if someone has already linked to this. I thought some of us might be interested.

@tv101 You are absolutely right. Here are a few pictures. The body is european ash and curly birch (very old, from my aunts farm). There is a weight relief cave in the "upper" part of the body, but no...

Attachment : 00001_x264.mp4 Had a lot of other stuff to do, including getting a new puppy and building a greenhouse. But finally, here is the unclamping of the neck glue-up on my second build. Now...

@Steveh Thanks for that. But there are easier ways: or Stewmacs fret calculator TLC Guitargoods in Holland: I am sure there a lot of other online resources that can do the exact same thing.It's ni...

Hi all, i guess most people have their own ways of marking and cutting fret slots ranging from measuring individually to using some quite nicely designed jigs, but I thought I’d share something that I...

nice

Mandolins manage 22 frets on a 14" scale length The very cool sounding Emerald Guitars Amicus (short scale 12 string) has 22 frets on an 18 inch scale length.

Posted by: @darrenking you wouldn’t want the see the last couple of inches of the fretboard devoid of frets even if they were useless. One alternative: A nice but simple inlay instead of those usele...

@darrenking I know what you mean but I think that they upper frets would still be needed purely from a cosmetic point of view. I mean, you wouldn’t want the see the last couple of inches of the fret...

Posted by: @robin reduce the number of frets on a short scale length to dispense with the useless ones that would be too close together. Hi @robin, I know what you mean but I think that they upper f...

@rocknroller912 Even on a full size violin the notes are very close together higher along the fingerboard, so if the frets are closer than the width of a persons finger then it will be hard to play....

@darrenking Yes that makes sense. Even on a full size violin the notes are very close together higher along the fingerboard, so if the frets are closer than the width of a persons finger then it will...

@rocknroller912 Thanks for the additional photo. The violin scaling works out at approx 94% for the 3/4 and just under 97% for the 7/8 as opposed to about and average of 90% and 94% respectively for t...

Posted by: @darrenking @russ I hadn’t realised! I’ve listed another 50(!) so that should keep you all going for a while! Let me know if there are any other problems. Cheers Darren Cheers Darren. &#x...

@russ I hadn’t realised! I’ve listed another 50(!) so that should keep you all going for a while! Let me know if there are any other problems. Cheers Darren

Posted by: @darrenking Hi @russ, Yes, I believe they are still on my eBay listing. As previously, if you purchase direct from me I will credit Mark and Carol with their margin the next time they orde...