Thanks again Mark - that was a fun session - I'm now off to pack in the day job and spend my time in a workshop making guitars. I've heard the the S...

D'Aquisto - shows that there are other options that are, aesthetically, much nicer! Ovation's sound holes are all refreshingly different - and bette...

@frocesterbill To my eye, Bill, your design is much more in-keeping with the shape of the body, than sticking a designed-in-the-16th-century f-hole ...

@markbaileyThanks for the reply Mark. Understand that the tailpieces are doing a different job, in terms of transmitting the vibration of the string...

The f-hole always - but always - bugs me. Why are (most) guitar designers so insistent in using a centuries-old design on a modern instrument? The ...

this is a piece of walnut that I used on a build last year .. [img/p> ... the finish is wet-sanded, so feels as smooth as !

Your pics have reminded me that I found a stack of 8' long, 2" thick walnut boards in a local "timber yard" (its a Norfolk version of what you might a...

That guitar is my Bailey custom build. There's a story behind it, going back to my first Bailey BYOG course. The guitar is still my #1. Pickup...

Got there in the end Mark - thanks for your persistence. Setting up, and maintaining, any sort of forum is incredibly time consuming and technically...

Ever since I saw this, this is the way I string a guitar ... The numbers just denote string thickness - (is it thousands of an inch diameter?...

I keep all my decent guitars in Hiscox cases, and they've always been fine - never let me down on any of the world tours * For the strength/protecti...

No video on this one - I'm doing rhythm/vocal on this one (so the lead playing is definitely NOT me!!) - it's actually from a turn up and play jam ses...

This isn't often seen in public ... but as I feel this is a safe space, I'll share it here. If it looks like it was recorded on an iPad propped ...

Look at the grain on that! Looks like a 1” slab @deej - thick enough for some curvaceous shaping? is it wide enough for a single piece top? Could ...

@jamesbisset For *most* guitar routing jobs, I use my ancient (1980s vintage) b&q no-name handheld router. Yup, it’s lasted 35-odd years (thoug...

Looks like you're going to be having a load of bendy fun ... ?

Templates there for just about everything. Can’t verify accuracy!

@david-johnson09 Do you want a ‘58, or a ‘76?