It was one of the great parts of the build courses. Start with a square piece of timber and a rasp .... and then a bit of sweat and some wood shaving...

Cheers @david-johnson09 I’ve got one more left to share. And then, of course, there’ll be another one for the 335 course build 😉

Hello Edwin @e-den-hertog! It was a great week 🙂 But then they've all been great weeks - I think it's one of Mark's laws! I remember your Tele ...

@robin I think that would work! I did something similar on this LPJr build ... Took a photo of the neck join area, photoshopped it to extend ...

@johnnierox-boo I did something similar (though for a completely different reason) on another build ... ... though, because of the fundamental...

Count me happy with the outcome on this ... But how about the back ... I've long wanted to make a cavity cover that properly matched t...

I'm pretty chuffed with the way this one turned out. No ugly black plastic scratchplate, AND no visible neck join! The body is stained red over gol...

Indeed. Never forgotten. ? He made a lot of smiles.

Great work @johnlerox-boo I’ve not really got into neck making so much, but your posts here are giving me a huge shove in that direction!

That's a good point @rocknroller912 Sometimes it feels like I spend a couple of hours making templates and jigs, so I can use some power tools (more...

That looks excellent. Somehow, Teles seem to look good to me when they have some "interesting" design features. Perhaps the relative plain-ness of ...

Thanks for the link. I'll get around to making some, one day ...

And that really was just 5 days. Quite how did Mark manage to oversee 4 "enthusiastic amateurs" building such brilliantly finished guitars, all comp...

Onto Day 5 ... Looks like job pretty much done ...

Day 4. Surprisingly, that followed Day 3 back in 2008 ... The other thing about Amazique (apart from being heavy) is that it's hard. Very 'eavy....

Day 3 ... I was using Iron Gear pickups back then. I've recently gone back to them too. In terms of value for money, I still reckon that they'...

Day 2... That top is Amazique. Which is another word for bloody heavy. I chose it based on looks, rather than any other attribute. The guitar...