@steveadams I had a bit of a learning opportunity when I fitted my bridge. I had drilled my test hole on a bit of scrap using my pillar drill, the po...

Hi Steve You also mention that the bridge should be offset from the scale length line by 1.5mm and 4.5mm, Just as Boo and Clinton said, your l...

That sounds like a wise decision Dodgedude. Have a look through my post "First Practice Build" and learn from my mistakes, most of them when using the...

@tv101 There's a guy in the US talks a good wall-build - and he's looking for a new job. If he can get my neighbour to pay for it, then the jo...

@boo maybe you could use some marital politics to negotiate a spare bedroom Unfortunately she had persuaded me to convert our spare room into ...

@tv101 I’ve got an oil filled rad in my workshop Oh, the luxury of electricity, it'll never catch on.

I'm so envious of you Boo, an indoor workspace, what a luxury. It's a bit chilly out in my lockup.

@peebee Thanks for your compliment, I impressed myself with what I managed to build. Hopefully I shouldn't have too many mistakes to document on my n...

Welcome to group Paul. I hope you can get back to work soon, we all need to go on holiday. Meanwhile turn your scrap pine into a guitar, thats what ha...

Iv'e just had another learning opportunity. I sprayed a clear lacquer onto my headstock / truss rod cover and some areas of the decals fizzed up. I h...

@tv101 the headstock is as big as it needs to be, and no bigger. I might have to add a little bump on the end to have room for my logo, I hadn...

built loads of partscasters Hi Peter, welcome to the group. When I first found Mark's livestreams I thought that I would build a partscaster and ...

That looks good Clinton. You can get very narrow masking tape that model makers use, that might be good to mask off the fret wires while you lacquer t...

@boo Are you going to seal them in with some clear coat? Yes I'll be spraying the face of the headstock and the truss rod cover with a clear ...

@russ Did you make the transfers yourself I bought the waterslide paper and used Windows Paint to draw the logos, then printed on an inkjet pr...

@tv101 I designed it with the aim of keeping the strings as straight as sensibly possible This is headstock style I'm using in my next build, ...

@tv101 My next build that I'm drawing up now has narrower tapered headstock, based on a Tanglewood Tomkat that I have. It's similar to the Bailey he...

@tv101 Truss Rod cover logo looks neat The truss rod cover has a bit of your veneer on it, left over from the same piece that I used for the h...

@94dodgedude Is this your first build, I'm a novice, just putting the finishing touches to my first build now. I've made lots of mistakes along the ...