My favourite TREX recording

@brad_nc Welcome to the forum. Your build looks good.

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment....... this takes me back. 🎸🙂🎶🙏

@boo That sounds good overall and she’s fortunate to have you! You obviously have your head on straight and your shit together so it sounds like you’ll be fine. When are you planning the move to Scotl...

That sounds good overall and she’s fortunate to have you! You obviously have your head on straight and your shit together so it sounds like you’ll be fine. When are you planning the move to Scotland? ...

My Strat doesn't smell of cheese.... It smells of sweat and stale beer......

Casein which is some form of milk protein. Is this why Strads smell of cheese? 🤣 🤣 In the world of veneering keeping glue lines, ie moisture, balanced on both sides of a panel are ke...

tv101 I haven't made a lot of new violins as there isn't much demand but that's not unusual. I've spoken to full time professional makers who only do repairs or take part made Chinese instruments and ...

Hi James, I think the order you do things might depend a little on what technology you have available to you. It would be possible to rout or laser cut a shallow engraved pattern into a layer of const...

Anyone heard of Sharpies? 🤣 🤣 🤣

What a beautiful guitar! Extremely classy and elegant but understated at the same time. We can all look at our instruments, or many other things in our lives, and see mistakes we have made, but there ...

@tv101 If I were you I would just bang one out at home, boom! Do it! Then after Covid go do a course and make one with an arm bevel. That way you’ll have one under your belt (it ain’t that difficult, ...

tv101 Another bench would be great but my garage has a finite amount of space and also has a motorbike and two bicycles. I was hoping to add on a conservatory in 2020 but Covid has made it difficult t...

Reference the discussion today about sealing the inside of instruments and why it's done on carved arch tops and not on flat tops. I've got some background in violin making and it's a topic which is f...

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@tv101 I was watching the acoustic course as well for a bit there, then I got completely distracted but intend to get back at it. I don’t really have much interest in building one but I certainly enjo...

@jamesnowayi’mtypingallthatshitouthaha All I know about planers is that most people recommend a spiral cutterhead as it apparently makes an enormous difference...

James I wouldn't get a planer. If you buy your wood from instrument suppliers it will be near to the finished size just leaving margins to work with. Thickness machines don't usually have a very wide ...

The question is where you stop! A huge great big chain saw is great for cutting down trees but then you need a lorry, a forklift, a resale, a drying kiln of an acre of outdoor space etc. A planer thic...

Has she had it long? @mattbeels She has had MS for many years. She has been very lucky, it’s been remit and relapse for a long time and she has worked constantly in our wonderful NHS Service as a sen...