Hi Mark, I noticed that the lacquered body and neck that you picked up at one point when discussing intonation didn't have the bridge area masked off....

Good morning, I am part way through watching Mark's latest (notso) live stream from the workshop and it great to see the guitar we started making to...

Hi Bill, try looking up Milliput. It's a two part epoxy putty that cures very hard and is often used for exactly what you are trying to do. Available ...

HI folks, Well, what an extraordinarily strange and screwed up world we are all now living in! Firstly, I hope that nobody on here is facing the wor...

Hi Bill, Naptha seems to be the fraction of crude oil that distills immediately prior to petroleum. There seem to be multiple sources on eBay and Fi...

Hi Bill, I think you would need to check with Mark on that and I'm not sure whether he has had a chance to press a front or back yet. I do know that...

Hi Bill, Have you got links to the YouTube videos and pics of the parts you are using? Cheers Darren

@md54 Birdseye veneer is mostly rotary cut and occasionally crown of or flat cut I believe. Cutting it on the quarter would result in much narrower le...

Ok, I picked up the veneers yesterday and have trimmed them and edge glued them into oversize sheets with the maple being long grain and the poplar cr...

Hi there, It has been a while since I made any further progress with this one but here are some photos of the birds eye maple Maccaferri Concert mod...

Hi md54, Quarter cut is as per an acoustic guitar sound board ie the grain runs at close to 90° to the surface. This cut typically displays lots of ...

Hi, Ok, so I can get quarter cut 1.5mm tulipwood (poplar by any other name) and 1.5mm maple in either crown cut or quarter cut. Most of the images ...

Hi MD54 (Snappy name, I like it!) and welcome to the club! I love the Sorrento, there is some beautifully elegant about the simplicity of it design ...

Hi James, Your options with an 80mm diameter blade are going to be very limited and you are unlikely to find any commercially available table saw th...

Hi there and Happy new year to one and all! It already seems like a long time ago! Now, how is this for frustrating? I have just had a delivery from ...

The hi-tech methods are often the best! Have a great new year sticking on your X braces! Darren

I should add that these images are pre-sanding

I have had a further thought about the construction of these double tops and that was that if I incorporated a narrow cross grain section down the cen...