@boo - I think you misinterpreted what I meant 😉 Robin's body split because there wasn't enough thickness of the wall of the guitar once he'd hollowed out the cavities, not because the body itself ...

Congrats on that Robin. Now you'll have to do an emergency dash back home to collect all the bits to be able to put it together. I sometimes wonder if the builds-that-go-wrong-but-are-rescued are mor...

Not another 12 string semi-hollow thru-neck Tele-esque build ... 😆 What a great build thread, and a few interesting design ideas that I might well pinch (sorry, "be inspired by") on a build ...

Been thinking about the ply-guitar. IIRC, @robin had a problem with a body which he'd hollowed out, but the edge then split when he applied pressure to it. If hollowing out a solid piece of timber, y...

Something odd is certainly happening! Usually, embedding pics here is a simple drag-and-drop process. Find the pic you want to embed and then just drag it from your PC/Mac and drop it into the text b...

Madness .... 🤣 But aren't Danelectros made out of plywood and some other weird non-"tonewood" material? So perhaps not totally mad

Any guitar - built or bought - that is fun to play and looks as good as yours does, is a good guitar. So congrats on your first build being a good one! Over the next 50 builds, they'll get even bette...

Hi @PJ and welcome to the forum. Congrats on finishing the mandolin build. I don't think your pic attachment quite worked though, and we always like to see the photos of each other's work! Have you s...

Lovely smooth carves and curves on that body @NSJ, and I always prefer the recessed screw (or bolt) holes for fixing a neck, just looks hugely neater to my eyes. 👍

Stunning work Russ - the detail, the precision and the woodworking skills. I noticed a few jigs and techniques in your very detailed write-up that I thought I'll probably adopt if I ever get the ner...

@russ @boo I bet you both could get into the DAW/plugin/recording world quite easily. It looks scary and confusing from the outside, and it can be incredibly complex from the inside, but it's reasona...

@nsj - I couldn't think of the name of this one earlier, which is a bit daft because I get emails from them most weeks! There are options there for more amp-focused plugins, which are reassuringly ex...

I might - occasionally and quite subtly (so you've probably missed the comments) - tease JimmyB about this build, but it's a beautiful thing in the flesh/wood, and the amount of thinking and planning ...

@boo I put together a few pedal kits first, for the soldering practice as much as anything. They’re also a *lot* cheaper (and less dangerous!) than building a valve amp, so seemed like a sensible pro...

Which DAW are you using on the PC @nsj? Agree - there are a million and one different plugins and the danger is that you spend more time searching out the one that you want, and then tweaking the vari...

😮 Has he “encouraged” you to post that @russ?

He has a very good reputation too. I admit that part of my reason for choosing ampmaker is that he's not a million miles away from me, so I thought I might be able to pop my build over to him for diag...

Attachment : image.png That, sir, is one classy piece of work. Very nice indeed.

But this looks nothing like the one you were working on in the workshop??? 🤔

How abso-bloody-lutely wonderful. Had a great time up there in the workshop with the genius that is @markbailey and the wonderful soup-maker-in-chief Carol and then in various entertainment venues in/...