Thanks again Mark - that was a fun session - I'm now off to pack in the day job and spend my time in a workshop making guitars. I've heard the the SW coast of Scotland is a good place to set-up shop ....

D'Aquisto - shows that there are other options that are, aesthetically, much nicer! Ovation's sound holes are all refreshingly different - and better matched to their guitar bodies - too. I've got an ...

@frocesterbill To my eye, Bill, your design is much more in-keeping with the shape of the body, than sticking a designed-in-the-16th-century f-hole in it! It's a clean, modern instrument, and the desi...

@markbaileyThanks for the reply Mark. Understand that the tailpieces are doing a different job, in terms of transmitting the vibration of the strings. I suppose I was really musing on the difference b...

Watching one of Mark's recent workshop streams prompted this thought. It just took a few weeks for the thought to make it as far as a forum post ... On an acoustic, the bridge/tailpiece is "just" glue...

The f-hole always - but always - bugs me. Why are (most) guitar designers so insistent in using a centuries-old design on a modern instrument? The video suggests that the design is to enhance the aco...

this is a piece of walnut that I used on a build last year .. [img] [/img] ... the finish is wet-sanded, so feels as smooth as !

Your pics have reminded me that I found a stack of 8' long, 2" thick walnut boards in a local "timber yard" (its a Norfolk version of what you might assume a timber yard to be) a few months ago. I did...

Posted by: @Deej that guitar in your avatar has some grunt That guitar is my Bailey custom build. There's a story behind it, going back to my first Bailey BYOG course. The guitar is still my #1. ...

Got there in the end Mark - thanks for your persistence. Setting up, and maintaining, any sort of forum is incredibly time consuming and technically frustrating. Ask me how I know ... 😉

Posted by: @Russ and the best way to restring the guitar? Ever since I saw this, this is the way I string a guitar ... The numbers just denote string thickness - (is it thousands of an inch diame...

Posted by: @Russ I've had a good look at Hiscox and it looks like it would be comfortable in the hand and could take a lot of bashing about. ??✌️ I keep all my decent guitars in Hiscox ...

No video on this one - I'm doing rhythm/vocal on this one (so the lead playing is definitely NOT me!!) - it's actually from a turn up and play jam session where none of us had ever played this, or any...

This isn't often seen in public ... but as I feel this is a safe space, I'll share it here. If it looks like it was recorded on an iPad propped in the corner of someone's living room, that's because...

Posted by: @ Look at the grain on that! Looks like a 1” slab @deej - thick enough for some curvaceous shaping? is it wide enough for a single piece top? Could be a winner ... Our tree is still sta...

Inspired by today's Workshop stream - and that beautiful piece of Walnut that's being turned into (not) Roland's guitar - I went out for a walk around the garden ... Attachment : 20200808_150200.j...

@jamesbisset For *most* guitar routing jobs, I use my ancient (1980s vintage) b&q no-name handheld router. Yup, it’s lasted 35-odd years (though it did bugger all for the first 25 of those). It’...

Looks like you're going to be having a load of bendy fun ... ?

Templates there for just about everything. Can’t verify accuracy!

@david-johnson09 >< Do you want a ‘58, or a ‘76?