Happy birthday Peter, it looks like you've had a birthday you'd have paid for as a treat! Many happy returns! Cheers Darren

Today in my 37th birthday. I got to meet and work on the collection of guitars of my 1st client. (a paid job). Phil - a British guitar player living near Zurich has a collection of 40 something guitar...

Today in my 37th birthday. I got to meet and work on the collection of guitars of my 1st client. (a paid job). Phil - a British guitar player living near Zurich has a collection of 40 something guitar...

A good thread and discussion. I have shielded and then not on builds just to experiment really. As @TV1010101 pints out Mark doesn’t shield on the course so I didn’t on the beginning. I have a few bo...

what are people's views on the necessity of shielding a guitar, and to what extent do you (if you do) shield yours? @tv1010101 I never used to shield at all but since I started building guitars for o...

Hi there, It has been a while since I made any further progress with this one but here are some photos of the birds eye maple Maccaferri Concert model. It has had a couple of coats of lacquer but it s...

I don't seem to have posted a pic of my Maccaferri Concert with strings on so here it is, hanging in a small Scottish cottage that may be known to some of you! I do need to unstring it again and have ...

I know that I have been posting progress on these under other topics but I thought it made sense to come back to the original one. I made a vacuum bridge jig today which just seemed simpler than makin...

Headstocks machined and should be mated with necks in the next day or two. The dowel holes are to aid alignment and recent slippage when gluing and clamping Attachment : 304BC26F-37E2-4371-B6C9-43...

Laminating the linings, veneering the headstock, sanding the front of the body prior to bonding the linings. Soundboards now pretty much ready to go bar for a little bit of final sanding. I like flat!...

Having laboured with the Selmer pliage soundboard guitar build for a couple of months now I have started what I hope will be a simpler distraction project whilst I get my head around exactly how to sh...

Brilliant ! The next stage is hold them down at either end and machine the diagonal radiused scoops on either side. I think the programming for this should be fairly straight forward so hopefully b...

@darrenking Most modern bridges I have seen that are of this style are not hollowed out like the one in the drawing. You could just skip it and leave it solid. If you make it from two separate pieces ...

I have been looking at the shape of the floating bridge for my Maccaferri and it really lends itself to being made in two halves (split lengthways viewed from the front) and then bonded together. I am...

Holy Guacamoli ! That is a serious piece of kit - not for the beginner ;P We did this on the course once here in the workshop but just used a basic hot pipe in a wooden mould to clamp it into - Also w...

The first pliage has been pliaged! I only had time for one very quick test before I left work today but it looks VERY promising. Given that I didn’t time anything or do anything more scientific that c...

Ok, so the pliage bending machine is coming along nicely. The 1” x 1/4” aluminium tubing was spot on and the 1/2” 425 watt cartridge heater is a really good snug fit so I haven’t bothered with any hea...

Ok, so seeing as I have a bit of a thing for laminated guitars I thought I should have a go at a classic. I should say at this point that I knew a guy when I was growing up in Scotland in the the late...

That component (IC27) looks like it might be a voltage regulator - that is a more recent amp than the one I found a schematic for - looks like it has DSPs for effects an poss amp models - bung a pictu...

@marcel Attachment : BBC Radio Bristol ARMPIT2.mp3 Internet radio competition winner Armpit Excerpt from BBC Radio Bristol 2009 Great fun! Warmness E PS thanks for feedback - it matters!