I love carving my own necks I still get a buzz when carving a neck It was one of the great parts of the build courses. Start with a square piece of timber and a rasp .... and then a bit of sweat a...

Great photo diary @tv1010101 Cheers @david-johnson09 I’ve got one more left to share. And then, of course, there’ll be another one for the 335 course build 😉

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Hello Edwin @e-den-hertog! It was a great week 🙂 But then they've all been great weeks - I think it's one of Mark's laws! I remember your Tele too - there was some beautifully detailed work on that. ...

@robin I think that would work! I did something similar on this LPJr build ... Took a photo of the neck join area, photoshopped it to extend the body grain pattern over the neck tenon (ie the neck te...

@johnnierox-boo I did something similar (though for a completely different reason) on another build ... Attachment : 20150307_152458.jpg Attachment : 20150307_152537.jpg ... though, beca...

Count me happy with the outcome on this ... Attachment : DSC_2849.JPG Attachment : DSC_2847.JPG Attachment : DSC_2848.JPG But how about the back ... Attachment : DSC_2846.JP...

Attachment : DSC_2827.JPG I'm pretty chuffed with the way this one turned out. No ugly black plastic scratchplate, AND no visible neck join! The body is stained red over gold grain filler - the g...

he must have worked most of the night Indeed. Never forgotten. ? He made a lot of smiles.

Great work @johnlerox-boo I’ve not really got into neck making so much, but your posts here are giving me a huge shove in that direction!

Sometimes I think people over use power tools and it makes the job more complicated than it is That's a good point @rocknroller912 Sometimes it feels like I spend a couple of hours making templates a...

That looks excellent. Somehow, Teles seem to look good to me when they have some "interesting" design features. Perhaps the relative plain-ness of an ordinary Tele makes the interesting ones stand ou...

Posted by: @david-johnson09 I used this site as a basic guide as I wanted different lengths.. Thanks for the link. I'll get around to making some, one day ...

And that really was just 5 days. Quite how did Mark manage to oversee 4 "enthusiastic amateurs" building such brilliantly finished guitars, all completely different designs and materials, in 5 days? I...

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Onto Day 5 ... Attachment : SSL20729.JPG Attachment : SSL20767.JPG Looks like job pretty much done ...

Day 4. Surprisingly, that followed Day 3 back in 2008 ... Attachment : Day4_1.jpg The other thing about Amazique (apart from being heavy) is that it's hard. Very 'eavy. Very 'ard. Day 4 wa...

Day 3 ... Attachment : SSL20669.JPG Attachment : SSL20673.JPG I was using Iron Gear pickups back then. I've recently gone back to them too. In terms of value for money, I still reckon ...

Day 2... Attachment : SSL20635.JPG Attachment : SSL20655.JPG That top is Amazique. Which is another word for bloody heavy. I chose it based on looks, rather than any other attribute. ...