Merry Christmas!

@markbailey. Merry Christmas to you too, I don't know how I would have gotten through this year without you, Carol, this course and this community too. Here's to another build and another year.

Merry Christmas All! Thank you Mark and Carol for giving us a wonderful experience and may we all have a blessed New Year!

Posted by: @jonhodgson And this is the explorer acoustic (with a double necked acoustic flying V for extra fun). So not traditional X bracing then?!!

Sounds great...the video you posted is too good.

The rosette is rather fun @jonhodgson It’s cosmic 🌟💫

The rosette is rather fun

@BooThe Phil McKnight one could so easily have been tacky and gaudy if they'd overdone any element (glitter paint and gold leaf sounds like something Elvis would have played in his Vegas days, probabl...

A thick flake coating would probably not be a great idea for the top (might work fine for the sides though, Ovation have made theirs out of composites for decades after all), but I wonder if a light c...

I saw him years ago at the first Holy Grail Guitar Show in Berlin, I didn’t say hello but watched him talking to people. He was pretty animated and very German! 😆 @mattbeels Sounds like fun. ...

Being serious - briefly - I'm guessing that the silver sparkly paint, or any paint, on the soundboard of an acoustic would suppress the vibration of the soundboard and so destroy the sound of the inst...

Just finished the inlays for the fret markers, did a clean up sanding with 220 grit paper, then shined up the pearl dots with 600 grit paper. Wiped off the sanding dust with a dry cloth and re-cut the...

@wolframmalukker THEN I see this crack opening up! I think I would fill the crack with superglue and sand it again before the glue sets to work the sanding dust into the crack. The downside is th...

Posted by: @wolframmalukker Am I OK to seal this crack up with some superglue, re cut the fret slot to clear any glue, and re-sand to 600 grit? @wolframmalukker Yes, it’s fine to fill it with super ...

A straight longitudinal crack in a dark, stripy wood is going to be VERY difficult to spot afterwards if you follow the advice already given, and it will have very little, if any, effect on the overal...

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I wiped all the candy off this guitar and started with a clean slate again. I played around with some masking techniques, trying different shapes and patterns. I then had a flash of inspiration and ch...

I wanted a swirly pattern so I got masking. Attachment : 883D76BA-35D9-4B3F-89FB-8D18E9657130.jpeg Attachment : 82B6D75D-EF0B-4287-8DD8-597ED416EE4F.jpeg

I wanted that ‘60s swirly pattern and I was going to do it with purple and gold candy, over the metal flake. I would then choose mirrored gold scratch plate and back cover plate. Also I decided on all...

I wasn’t quite happy with the masking on the top, not swirly enough, so I adjusted it a bit. I then got some purple on there. Coincidentally, the name of this candy purple is, Purple Haze. 💜 ...