Last seen: Jan 24, 2025
Firebird with wings! I got up my courage and glued the wings on today - removed the clamps and I am pleased with it - need to clean up the joins ...
Cigar box Firebird looks good! I have been thinking about sneaking in a solid Uke - possibly Explorer or Flying V shaped.....
Cheers!
What dimensions approx?
Thatâs all looking very good!
Lovely part of the world!
Started my neck carve - ends need sorting but middle bit feels OK - need to compare it to my other guitars... I did make sure that I was wearing ...
Welcome Ewan - we are all friendly and some of us are addicts - guitar building gets you that way! What part of the world are you from?
What model of the Earlex HVLP did you go for Mike?
Looks stunning!
Youâve been busy - lovely lot of guitars...... Been on two Baileys workshop courses and hope to do another next year. Agree about the friendliness ...
I finally got up courage to cut the pickup holes. The pickups are from Mr Fabulous in Australia. Also added control cavities - a channel is rout...
Firebird Tuners - the Steinberger Gearless Tuners are not in production and fetch a hefty price - found these - Riot Tuners by Alpaca Guitars - see...
Answering one of my own questions now.... Just tried cutting both sides of a line with a fresh scalpel blade then running the Dremel between the cut...
The Wonky Phoenix..... Follwing Darren Kingâs idea of using Milliput to do a Phoenix logo I printed a logo, stuck it on with Titebond to a piece of ...
I am also favouring chamfer.... So I mark the target line on the top and side of the wing and then carve it the same way that you use to put the fir...
The wings are Padauk and Walnut .... Do I leave the edges like this or do a roundover or carve (more neatly) a chamfer Any advice?
Suggestion for livestream workshop - you said that you enjoyed doing inlays.......
Mark is passionate about building guitars - the one he builds and the ones that we build either at the workshop or on line. He gets a real buzz out o...