I know that I have been posting progress on these under other topics but I thought it made sense to come back to the original one. I made a vacuum bri...

Things are moving on. The body of the tropical olive Concert model has now been lacquered and the neck has had two coats, a rub down and now a final a...

I don’t think there is anything to laugh at regarding your clamps! They look great. I still regularly use a pair of 4’ sash cramps I made almost 35 ye...

Should have said guitar chair! Mind you, the guitar is really pretty too!

That's beautiful! Easily the nicest guitar I've ever seen!

Thanks for the suggestions Mark and option A has now been adopted. It only took a little under 1mm off the width at the 12th fret but I will remake th...

Lots of cutters actually have a mark on the shank showing the recommended insertion depth. You may get away with 3mm or 4mm less but this will be putt...

All right, all right!! Don't all laugh out loud at once!!! It WON'T happen again, I promise!

I've now got the neck onto the tropical olive Maccaferri although the sharper eyed of you may notice a small glitch caused by the body moving on the j...

Hi Mark, Thanks for your input. This model is nylon strung and has a fairly normal bridge bonded to the sound board rather than the free floating vers...

Ok, so I have now made the jig for machining the dovetail on the neck. I kept as many of the pieces identical to the body jig although I reduced the o...

Anyone fancy making their own?

Recent = Prevent!

Headstocks machined and should be mated with necks in the next day or two. The dowel holes are to aid alignment and recent slippage when gluing and cl...

I designed a jig many years ago to enable me to machine a radius on to some long vertical blind sections using just a hand router. It would be pretty ...

Laminating the linings, veneering the headstock, sanding the front of the body prior to bonding the linings. Soundboards now pretty much ready to go b...