Last seen: Mar 3, 2025
@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 At last - someone who understands!
So ebony is going to sound just as bad as all my other guitars then 😉
@darrenking We need to talk! I haven’t got to the Bagpress bit of the pre-planning yet, but I was assuming that I’d need to either build a 3D mode...
I’ve been measuring my favourite guitars before spec’ing my own choice. They’re all between 2-2.8mm wide and 0.9-1.2mm tall. If you use 1.2mm height...
I’ve just voted for more edited videos. ARCHTOP! But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy tuning in every week. I do! I just think once a week is still a...
Yeah - I like that cut across. Reminiscent of the bar on the ƒ. I’m guessing that binding it will be fiddly, but wee straight pieces of binding shou...
@tv1010101 That one looks like it’s crying tears of laughter. :¬D I’ve printed them all out. I’ll keep looking at them and see which ones grow on ...
@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 The teardrop was deliberate, BTW. It’s an ancient decorative shape in Celtic / Indo-European culture from thousands of ye...
@james-chacewatergmail-com-2 Yeah - that’s where we are. 😉
Jol Danzig sets up a rig to test string tension: If proof were needed that @markbailey is ALWAYS RIGHT!
@rocknroller912 This takes building a guitar on the kitchen table to a whole new level!
@rocknroller912 Thanks for that. Would I be right in thinking it’s a fairly expensive way to finish a guitar though? Would you do it? Touchstone Ton...
Can’t get the 'edit' button to work, so I’ll just stick this in a separate post - oil vs spirit vs Stradivarius:
It appears that there is a debate eternal in the violin world over oil vs spirit varnish. It always reaches the ‘what would Stradivarius do’ stage. ...
That’s what I’m trying to work out. There must be some sweet spot between the poetry (and sheer bloody-mindedness) of this: and the simplicity (c...
Just while we’re on the subject of the law for archtops... is it also the law to have a maple neck?
Well done! Slightly scared to see what happens next!
@frocesterbill The big Triton was collected yesterday. I did wonder if the clerical error would be compounded and they’d send me a second router witho...