That suggests that you don't consider *us* to be your friends, @tv101 Oh stop it, that’s not what I meant and you know it. 🤣

This Strat was sent to me recently from America for a paint job and it needed some repairs done before I started with paint. Those repairs are done now and the whole guitar body is now in primer and a...

I won’t vote in this poll so as not to potentially swing it one way or the other. This guitar body is being painted as part of a project for a new guitar being built for a father and daughter in Amer...

I’m no painter but I think the flake should be in proportion to the body size. Very large would be too big.

We decided on the very large flake in the end, it looks good. It never looks brilliant at this first stage but it will once I get a shine on it. Right now it’s quite like sand paper, P80 grade i recon...

I just saw this @boo but it looks like you made a decision on the flake rather quickly. So I voted very large just for fun. Go big or go home, right? What a terrible story about that poor girl, I hate...

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It may go horribly wrong. Something tells me @rocknroller912, that in your capable hands everything will be just fine. Have fun!

Thought I would have a practice run using the methods that Mark shows on the live streams before starting on the wood I bought from Mark & Carol. First job is making the blank flat and level and n...

but I didn't make that one. I know @tv101, you can tell from the photo that it was made by a pro! 😂 Seriously though, why didn’t you specify no BLACK PLASTIC?

Professional builders aren’t offended by customers having specific requirements like no black plastic. It all adds to the challenge and it’s a great sense of achievement when you can tick all the boxe...

Hah, yeah I thought mentioning the scale length was somewhat irrelevant afterward. I think they’d be bang on if I’d gone with a 54mm bridge, anyway, given it’s not something I’d paid the slightest att...

@tej This is the bridge you’re using, right? It looks like a 52mm spacing is perfect! In my experience a slight mismatch on the poles doesn’t make any noticeable difference in the sound but personally...

so I am glad I added those extra 3mm of clearance. 😉 @darrenking The jig looks awesome and I want one but it will have to wait a bit... any idea what it’ll cost to send one my way? 😬

Just in case anybody thinks that my woodworking is limited to things controlled by a keyboard I thought I should put the flattening jig through it paces. I picked an old lump of ash measuring 200mm x ...

I'll be buying one, it's a more than fair price, and it's just cool. Is your neck pocket jig available through Mark and Carol, or would I order that from you? (I have to sort out a Bailey order soon).

Thanks again Darren for all your work on this Thanks for your appreciation Russ, its much appreciated!

I'm not a fan of bits of cheap black plastic appearing *anywhere* on a guitar! @tv101 I completely agree but... ? Attachment : image.jpeg

@tv101 I honestly thought I’d looked on axetec as I was looking to get pickups from there!! Clearly didn’t look very well! Does remind me though that I need to decide on pups!!!

Great to see you getting started @tej. Looking forward to seeing your progress. Remember to measure twice & cut once. 📏📏🪚 🙏🙂🎶🎸