Hi John Thanks for the welcome. I'm building one of Mark's acoustic kits. However, I have been watching the lessons and inwardly digesting Marks expertise in case I jump in the deep end and do the who...

Hi Herb thanks for the welcome, and the warning. It's Saturday and time for a bacon sarnie soon. Does life get any better than that? J

Hi Jonathan - welcome! Beware... this is adictive... hope it goes well and you have a blast! cheers, Herb

Hi I'm a newbie to this new site and I'm also new to the making of guitars. This course was a birthday gift from my wife and it's been a brilliant present. Mark says you need a bandsaw, so I now have ...

A few more pics of the archtop build for your entertainment. The side bending went well but very slowly round my exhaust pipe bending tube. Thanks for the tip of thinning the maple for the tighter ben...

Thanks Mark. Any chance of you getting my sides thicknesses so I can move along. Pleeease.

Progress on the archtop. After weeks of planning and scraping and sanding then repeating all the above, the back is now carved with only the refining of the thickness from centre to edges to do. Hopef...

Update on progress. I'm following the Benedetto book and have scaled down his design from 17" to 16" for my preference. Lots of drawing of the arching profiles and cutting them out of 3mm hardboard wa...

Progressing with the Thistle Archtop. Rough shaping of the back with the plane. It's flamed maple and pretty hard wood. Having to re-sharpen the plane every ten minutes or so. Attachment : IMG_201...

Don't believe this!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as I posted my reply, the attach file thing appears!!!!!! Attachment : IMG_20190609_135235[267].jpg Hope this attempt works.

Hi Mark. Thanks for the reply. I had seen the "how to" post but still can't get the wee red paperclip thing at the bottom. All I have is a tick box with "Subscribe to this topic" beside it. Tried tick...

Hi. Good news on the Thistle Archtop front. Got the wedges trued and glued before I went on holiday and have returned to making sawdust at last. I wish there was some way to attach the photos. I'm ope...

Hi. Tried to post Thistle photos but don't get the wee paperclip to attach them. I'm using android with Windows 10. Any ideas???

Hello. I've just joined the happy community with the aim of building another guitar. Having completed the "Thistle" last year with the online video series, I am getting bolder with "Thistle 2". More a...

You should all watch this! Steve Anderson’s guitars fetch big money. The guitarist in the vid is world class. He doesn’t need to sponsor SA. Very interesting alternative to the normal. It’s true that ...

@md54 Birdseye veneer is mostly rotary cut and occasionally crown of or flat cut I believe. Cutting it on the quarter would result in much narrower leaves, which would reduce the value, and so it is r...

Ok, I picked up the veneers yesterday and have trimmed them and edge glued them into oversize sheets with the maple being long grain and the poplar cross grain. I have also put them through the wide b...

Thanks Darren - what a useful graphic!

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@darrenking Yup, I guess that would work but I don’t fully understand the timber cut terms. ps the back is dished but appears to have no bracing at all! So I guess it must have been pressed to a very...