Ordered the kit from this site. I have an exam tomorrow (digital forensics) and then I can start thinking about a plan for building. Can't say I'm going to miss working with MDF - horrible stuff!!!

Humbucker, body, control cavity, neck taper and headstock patterns. Attachment : Hum and Headstock Patterns.JPG Attachment : Control Cavity Pattern.JPG Attachment : Body Pattern.JPG ...

Quickly made a neck caul. I used cork for the strips, hopefully this should work nicely. Attachment : Neck Caul.JPG I'm going to make the patterns next: Body, headstock, humbucker cavity and co...

@jonathan-auckland Thanks for the advice. In the past I've made it up as I've went along so I'm hoping by planning things out and following the videos I will be a bit more successful. I don't mind mak...

Hi and welcome from the Shed in the rain. I found that the making of all the necessary bits stoped me from jumping in at the deep end with both feet. I finished my first acoustic build recently and co...

Made the headstock angle jig today. I figured that I am only using it to clamp the neck and route the headstock angle so I made it a little bit shorter. Attachment : Headstock Angle Jig.JPG Fre...

Yesterday I made the neck heel angle jig. Attachment : Heel Angle Jig.JPG I've never made one of these before and angling the heel of a guitar neck is one of the top mistakes I've made in the p...

I've had a go at making guitars in the past, but they generally turn out bad. In fact bad is giving them too much praise. I've made so many mistakes there isn't enough disk space on all the servers on...

@markbailey I am happy to post the entire 'blog' here and not to the wider Internet? I find that when I write stuff down it makes me do things better... weird but that's what I am like! 🙂

Cheers @mateyboy - It would be great if you could start a build thread here too !

Hello all, I'm fairly new to this community. I've attempted to build a few guitars over the last couple of years and made many mistakes and this means they are usually unplayable! So I'm a pretty usel...

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All my router bits are 1/4”......

@hogan yes, nowt wrong with that

me again , i just ordered a router with a 1/4 chuck and didn't realise when i ordered it , will this be ok?

awesome , i sent a message about a baritone custom fret-board , has anyone seen it ?

Apart from the sound hole and some extra routing it is a stock Bandsman built from the online course.

thats awsome

My build from a Bailey kit - plays and sound really good! Attachment : 26177D58-2CFF-455D-BCFA-3126756501FB.jpeg

nice one thank you , im gonna see about maybe saving up or something and get down for a cbyo , but for now ill make my baritone tele with duel emg's and see how good i can get that finished