@frocesterbill For the better part of the past 15 years I’ve made my living running a repair shop so having a clean space is important as customers are coming and going. I prefer to have a store fron...

Isn’t it amazing? 60 years old and still actually quite a playable instrument. Quirky I’ll grant you, but who knows how it really sounded when it was new. They go for quite big money these days with c...

@darrenking It seems there are a few still hanging around

Do you notice any difference in tone . Without wanting to blow my own trumpet too much, the first two laminated, steel string acoustics that I made are still the best sounding, best intonated and lou...

This is one big advantage of laminating with veneers. You can find absolutely amazingly stunning veneers far easier than you can the equivalent solid and there is so much less wastage of the raw mater...

I think you have to look at the product in context. Reviewing a 50’s or 60’s plastic guitar in the 80’s or 90’s is probably unfair. It was designed to be a low cost, reasonably ok guitar made from mat...

developed a completely plastic guitar, @darrenkingI saw a review of his plastic guitar in (I think) Guitarist magazine years ago (a retro review, I'm not that old). It was so so and apparently the gu...

Being ‘posh plywood’ they are less affected by changes in temperature and humidity and this was the aim of Mario Maccaferri when he first designed the guitar. I believe that his later company in the U...

@darrenking Aren’t laminated tops less prone to bowing then solid tops?

some sort of Birdseye (maple?) Yes, Birdseye maple. This is one big advantage of laminating with veneers. You can find absolutely amazingly stunning veneers far easier than you can the equivalent sol...

@deej I’m always on my phone so sometimes it’s rather frustrating because the pics can’t be enlarged after clicking on them... I’ll be on my ipad more when in the shop so that’ll help. I should use my...

I need to click on more of these photos to really appreciate them better... @mattbeels I was looking at it on a large monitor are well 😍 sone sort of Birdseye (maple?)? It really pops with th...

Wow the back on it that acoustic is stunning.. @deej You’re right, it is! I need to click on more of these photos to really appreciate them better...

@darrenking Wow the back on it that acoustic is stunning..

@boo Thanks for the detailed answer. I knew some of that but not everything so all good. I figured that you would probably have to key metal up a bit, just wanted to be sure. Dare I ask which grit or ...

The short answer is........ Yes. 🤣 @boo Yeah jeez, a simple yes will suffice okay? 😂😂😂

Do you have to scuff up the water bottle and those tins a bit for adhesion? @mattbeels The short answer is........ Yes. 🤣

Do you have to scuff up the water bottle and those tins a bit for adhesion? @mattbeels Yeah, anything you are applying paint to needs a “keyed” surface to cling to. Even emulsion that you paint your ...

@boo Not boring. Do you have to scuff up the water bottle and those tins a bit for adhesion?

@boo I feel your pain with the bowed body blank, I’ve been there a few times in the early days. I always check now by putting one half in a vice with the glue edge facing up. Sit the second half on to...