Here's a clip of "Akoestische Heeren" when we played at a silver wedding anniversary. Stijn is the guitar player on the left, the one in the middle is Dirk and the guy on the bass is me.

When I was a young boy back in the sixties of the previous century I was fascinated by the jingle jangle sound of the 12-string Rickenbackers of Roger McGuinn and George Harrison. So a couple of years...

@rashdown_online It depends if you are looking to put inlays in and then ebony would be better If your are.. Attachment : FEA5939F-2266-4F13-A34A-9DB88E7B15BC.jpeg This is. Walnut cap on o...

Oh yeah...when’s the raffle for the guitar anyway ?

I had one to change a broken truss rod...not doing that again. Nearly sh#t myself trying to get the fretboard off with an iron and a scraper....thankfully it turned out ok and it did sound awesome. D...

Oh and I love the spalted cap..

Very nice indeed @marcel much better top horn Design than the Warwick bass “knob” horn... Great design ?

Only a thought! ?

Hey Marcel, Don't you have a spare key to her house? She'll never know!! No, I don't. And my brother in law is a very big and strong guy.

And I thought you were a nice guy Darren........

Hey Marcel, Don't you have a spare key to her house? She'll never know!! ? ?

Perhaps you could talk her into it one day. Haha, no I won't. I don't make guitars and basses for a living so I don't mind too much about the money. In this case I was ok just to get the money I ha...

Thanks for your kind words John. Yes I've built some guitars and basses over the last 10 years. Will post some more of it soon.

Shortly after finishing my first build at home I started working on a Strat model and a Jazz bass. Strat: Mahogany body, maple neck and fretboard, Tonerider Pure VintageTRS1 pick-ups, Gotoh tuners an...

We've been friends for more then 40 years, and when he unwrapped the present it was the first time in all those years he was speechless for the first time in all those years. @marcel I’m not surprise...

@markbailey Thanks Mark, I'll give that a go. Looks like I'll be spending the rest of the afternoon sharpening old abused chisels.

all the yotube videos I can find on sharpening have the bevel on outside, can anybody point me in the right direction. Try this

@david-johnson09 thanks for that, I got my flat chisels sharp enough to shave my wrist. Now that I've watched that video I'll have another go at the gouges.

Hi all. So. That Walnut guitar Mark’s been building on TheTube that TV wants!!! Turns out that the piece of GreenHeart (Stage right on the bench behind Mark) is not going to work for the neck. S...

I am enjoying it more and more. I’ve built a few in a row recently and I think that is a great way to hone the skill and reinforce my understanding of the process. Indeed it is good to try and build d...