

Last seen: Apr 9, 2025
Hi Emmanuel, sorry to hear that you’re having problems with your fretboard. Not quite clear on how the fretboard is warping, i.e. in which direction a...
Thanks Dan, will see soon how well the Poplar behaves when I start routing the cavities. I’ve used London Plane before and it is generally easy to wor...
Nice work Neil, you’re a regular guitar making machine!!🤣🤣 Keep up the good work👍😃🎸
I admire your ability to do it all with a hand plane, I’d love to have that skill and confidence. I suppose I should just go and practice on some scra...
@nsj Had another go at it yesterday afternoon and I think I’m just about there, stopped before I scunnert myself of the job ( in my experience that’s ...
@nsj Thanks Neil, yeah a real pain, no kidding!! I guess I’ll just have to have another go at it this afternoon. I know that I’m close but not close ...
@curre Hi, you might be quicker to contact Mark or Carol directly on their email addresses mark@baileyguitars.co.uk carol@baileyguitars.co.uk They...
@liebe Thanks for the link Dan, now I’ve looked I remember having a browse through the tops a while ago, memory not what it used to be!!🤣...
@liebe Great work Dan, you got a real production line going there!! Really like the woods you’re using for the tops, would like to know more about Mar...
Nice one Neil, I seem to remember reading about copper bodied guitars somewhere and thinking they looked pretty cool. Are you going to use a wooden ce...
@bjarni Hi Martin, Maybe you would be better asking those questions on the Build Your Own Electric Guitar forum to reach a wider audience. I must conf...
@bjarni Hi again Martin, you will have to register your account (user name, password etc.), log in and look for the courses, scroll down to “Awesome G...
Hi Martin, welcome to the community 👍😃🎸 Sounds like you have followed a similar route as many of us into the crazy world of ...
Hi Dan, Don’t know why it’s taken 2 weeks for your post to appear, bet you thought we were all ignoring you!!🤣🤣 Welcome to the forum...
@somethingnicer When you make the rough cut on the bandsaw, leave plenty of waste to be removed in the surface routing. Place the neck blank in the gi...
@somethingnicer Hi again, ask all the questions you need to, better that than making mistakes, we’re all on a learning curve here!!😃 Mark’s di...
Sorry, my last couple of posts yesterday haven’t appeared in this topic, I was having trouble logging in to my account and replied via the reply optio...
Hi, there seems to be a wee bit of confusion here, so I’ll try to answer this question and your next one together 😃 The slot for the truss r...