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.....How many Luthiers does it take to change a lightbulb?…..…..…......... Only one Luthier - but it will take at least two days by the time he has built the jigs and made the patterns to do the job.....

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Thats funny coz its true! Those folks who want to keep everything secret probably aren't worth listening to anyway as they often don't know what they are talking about...In my experience the best ones...

Hello Peeps, As you all know Mark describes himself as a Guitar Maker and NOT a Luthier so I thought it was safe enough to tell my Luthier Joke...... .....How many Luthiers does it take to change a li...

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Love all the drummer jokes. I used to have a boss at work whose favourite story was to boast about the time he sat in with John Mayalls Blues Breakers at a gig in Carlisle as the regular drummer took ...

Just a suggestion, and you can tell me to begger off i wont mind, Why not make the pick up cavity in the back of the guitar same as a pot cavity but the same shape as a regular pick up cavity, and ju...

@deej i am in the middle of designing my next build and have designed it around this idea, i have even toyed with the idea of veneering the pick up with matched wood so that the pick ups themselves ar...

@tv1010101 My friend bought all the individual components for the amp and designed the circuit himself. The base is flat aluminium folded on a machine. He does have a degree in instrumentation so it p...

@tv1010101 Looks like a challenging project even with a kit which should have all the parts. Anything connected to the mains 240v has the potential for disaster. Valves work at about 400v usually I th...

To be fair, Mark is quite a long way from most places. For me it's only 445 miles. Luckily I live close to Amsterdam airport, so it's the bus to the airport, flight to Glasgow, bus to Paisley Gilmour...

I think I'd like to join in on a workshop course and build an acoustic, when Mark's allowed to have students in again.

Soldering was one of the things I had problems with when I started building guitars - there are a couple of hard won tips and tricks I'd like to pass on to make your life a little easier. Today I'll s...

"Who knows..." meaning "There a slight theoretical chance..."

Well, start playing the bass and maybe next year who knows... I’ll hold you to that... ?

did I mention it’s my birthday in a couple of weeks... I can’t believe as I type this but I may get into playing basses after seeing the recent posts of your work. Well, start playing the bass and ...

I liked the sound of the fretless bass I had made very much so I decided to make a bass with the same type of pickup (Seymour Duncan SMB 4a). But with other woods. Ash body with a myrtle top, maple (s...

After making a number of basses of my own design I decided to make some basses of a more classical design. The first one was this Jazz bass. But I wanted to give it a personal twist. So instead of a c...