Are you "AustrianJohn" on another UK guitar forum? I've given away a couple, sold a couple (but - deliberately - not for much!), kept a few, and...

HI Bill The base board is made from some old kitchen worktop, so it's as deep (ie front to back) as the worktop was (600mm?) I then grabbed some c...

That's a lot of helpful detail on the build. I keep thinking that I should try a thru-neck sometime - I guess the cigar box guitar that I actually b...

Wow - thats really nice. I am always in awe of people who make acoustics. To my mind, that's *proper* woodworking skill. The accuracy and tiny tol...

Thanks guys - all Mark's fault!! There are 5 more in-build in my "workshop" at the moment. One of the benefits of lockdown is that I've got a lot m...

Not sure I'd quite call it beautiful, but thanks Mark! I found a slight "operational inconvenience" when using it. To clamp the sides of the cap in...

Which is going to fit on top of this body (made earlier) ...

... and then I tried it out with a sanding bar on a nice top ...

... back with some more! These are a mixture of builds and saves - guitars rescued after someone else had got a so far, and then realised that someth...

So of course there have been more ... ... and as soon as I can work out how to embed more images from a different image hosting site, I'l...

I built a few more Teles, but that bit of the journey is like a train trip through some really boring countryside. Best skipped over. Back to Mark'...

And self-build #2 ... Yes, it's another Cherry Tele. But this one was a little more adventurous, being a chambered Tele body and my ow...

Back at home, in my very own shed, my first build was a cheat. A (Cherry) Tele - because guitars don't get much simpler - with I think a ...

Build #1 taught me that I *could* build a guitar. To be honest, and despite all the assurances from Mark and Carol prior to the course, I'd never rea...