@boo Saw this and thought that when you get bored of flakes you can have a go at this. Just skip to 14:10 to see the guitar after the special magic has been sprayed on to it.

🤔 BTW we have always had side benders in stock and ready to ship:

Our dreadnoughts are 120mm at the fattest point so you can easily cut it down to 115mm (5mm made up by top and back) - is that enough to cut the split off? The Bailey Bootlegger is just 100mm - looks ...

My favourite song today:

And some nice background on the making of Up on Cripple Creek.

That's brilliant!!! How does it sound?

Hello, I would choose A. I think rosewood would look stunning for the fretboard and I heard that Jimi Hendrix had an advantage keeping the higher strings in tune longer the reverse way. I could be wro...

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Nice work there Blake.

@tv101 Brilliant avoidance of use of nasty black plastic! Well except for those pickups and knobs 😆

Great job @blake! That body wood looks fantastic and the whole job came out really well. I really like your build pics too 👍

Thanks @Russ. I did make those, honestly only because there was a little gap to the fretboard with the supplied ones.

Looks Great @blake. Did you make the pickup surrounds yourself? 🎸🙂🎶🙏

Hi all, I’m at the pretty much done stage on my first build. Very happy with the result. Here are some pics in no particular order. Goes without saying I wouldn’t have been able to do this without the...

@Rocknroller912 Chestnut is the melamine lacquer I have. Can you recall if you used their cellulose or acrylic sealers?

@jonhodgson The sanding sealer I used was the same make as the lacquer, it was Craft Supplies which was bought over by Turners Retreat a few years ago. I think their current brand is called Chesnut.

@rocknroller912 Thanks I've done a quick test piece of melamine lacquer so far, just enough to start to get an idea of its characteristics, but your info will be very useful. What sort of sealer did y...

@boo, your test plan is a good idea, I was thinking along those lines. The other advice you gave will probably be largely applicable too, thanks.

No rattle cans in this batch (though I'll try a rattle can acrylic sealer), these are going to be brush applied. @jonhodgson Oh sorry, my mistake. You can still use a test plan though if you wanted t...

@jonhodgson Ive tried melamine lacquer when I first started making instruments, a long time ago. It wears well but dries hard so is not ideal for acoustics as it stiffens the wood making it less respo...