unclePJ
24th February 2009, 11:16 PM
Found this site and thought it’d be good to say… hello.
Live in place called Rye in England after moving from the city of Manchester. I work in Architecture but started life as a joiner and now I’ve moved to the slower paced country life, I stare at my computer and dream of a big work shop surrounded by wood…haha (wife thinks I’m mad) but she dreams of a big dressing room surrounded by shoes, so go figure!!
I’m building a solid body electric guitar the body is mahogany (free window cill someone gave me) and the neck maple (which a bloke round the corner gave me) and I’m doing it all on a black and decker work mate outside coz I’ve not got more than a 2ft x 4ft shed which is shoved full of stuff. It’s all being done by hand tools although I’ve just got a small bandsaw off ebay since I blew up my jigsaw trying to cut out the body…
Found this site whilst looking for a forum in GB, but this ones cool coz it’s so comprehensive… good work!
Just got ‘The Woodworker & Woodturner’ (March edition) and it’s got a walk though of a Spanish guitar… so I’m dreamin of the next project, my passion really is clocks and one day I hope to set up myself building nice clocks although the guitar building has really started me along another path, which I wish I’d discovered when I was young enough to join a rock band …well you never know…
Cya
Phil
Live in place called Rye in England after moving from the city of Manchester. I work in Architecture but started life as a joiner and now I’ve moved to the slower paced country life, I stare at my computer and dream of a big work shop surrounded by wood…haha (wife thinks I’m mad) but she dreams of a big dressing room surrounded by shoes, so go figure!!
I’m building a solid body electric guitar the body is mahogany (free window cill someone gave me) and the neck maple (which a bloke round the corner gave me) and I’m doing it all on a black and decker work mate outside coz I’ve not got more than a 2ft x 4ft shed which is shoved full of stuff. It’s all being done by hand tools although I’ve just got a small bandsaw off ebay since I blew up my jigsaw trying to cut out the body…
Found this site whilst looking for a forum in GB, but this ones cool coz it’s so comprehensive… good work!
Just got ‘The Woodworker & Woodturner’ (March edition) and it’s got a walk though of a Spanish guitar… so I’m dreamin of the next project, my passion really is clocks and one day I hope to set up myself building nice clocks although the guitar building has really started me along another path, which I wish I’d discovered when I was young enough to join a rock band …well you never know…
Cya
Phil