Posted by: @johnbarr2004 As I live in Austria I do the Bailey courses on-line, and my house is now full of guitars. Do you keep yours, sell them, give them away? Are you "AustrianJohn" on another U...

Posted by: @frocesterbill What dimensions approx? HI Bill The base board is made from some old kitchen worktop, so it's as deep (ie front to back) as the worktop was (600mm?) I then grabbed some c...

That's a lot of helpful detail on the build. I keep thinking that I should try a thru-neck sometime - I guess the cigar box guitar that I actually built in the shape of a firebird a few weeks back doe...

Wow - thats really nice. I am always in awe of people who make acoustics. To my mind, that's *proper* woodworking skill. The accuracy and tiny tolerances that you have to work to ... that's a differ...

Posted by: @johnbarr2004 Wow - what a fantastic guitar collection! Posted by: @frocesterbill You’ve been busy - lovely lot of guitars...... Been on two Baileys workshop courses and hope to do a...

Posted by: @markbailey Its beautiful! Not sure I'd quite call it beautiful, but thanks Mark! I found a slight "operational inconvenience" when using it. To clamp the sides of the cap in place, y...

Which is going to fit on top of this body (made earlier) ...

... and then I tried it out with a sanding bar on a nice top ...

... I went and made a jointing board ...

As I've seen a lot, and chatted to a few, of the names here during Mark's excellent online sessions, I thought I'd join and introduce myself. tv1010101 - Tony. My first Bailey course was a few years...

... back with some more! These are a mixture of builds and saves - guitars rescued after someone else had got a so far, and then realised that something had gone a little awry on their way there A...

So of course there have been more ... ... and as soon as I can work out how to embed more images from a different image hosting site, I'll be back with some more photos ...

I built a few more Teles, but that bit of the journey is like a train trip through some really boring countryside. Best skipped over. Back to Mark's workshop for Build #3. This was just a self-treat...

And self-build #2 ... Yes, it's another Cherry Tele. But this one was a little more adventurous, being a chambered Tele body and my own neck. You can tell it's my own neck, because I *always* p...

Back at home, in my very own shed, my first build was a cheat. A (Cherry) Tele - because guitars don't get much simpler - with I think a bought-in neck. You can call me a cheat if you like, but I...

Build #1 taught me that I *could* build a guitar. To be honest, and despite all the assurances from Mark and Carol prior to the course, I'd never really believed that I *could*, so that was a big ste...

Once upon a time, a long long (long) time ago - OK, about 2007 - I made my first guitar, on my first Bailey BYOG course. Back then, if someone gave me a piece of wood, and a saw, and asked me to cut t...