Building guitars

Wiring a Kawai F-I

2010-09-10T22:28:00.001+01:00

As you'll see from the pic in the post below, not all the wiring on my "new" Kawai was quite as it should be. I believe that it's traditional for both ends of a wire to be connected to something. Apparently, circuits don't work too well if one end of the wire is just hanging around mid-air. So it turns out that electrickery isn't quite so clever after all. Anyways, with huge help from

Kawai F-I

2010-09-05T13:38:00.001+01:00

I grabbed this one from eBay last week. It was expensive as there were a couple of other bidders who seemed particularly keen on it. If you were one of those, please get in touch, as I'd be interested in knowing why you were so interested! The price was <£100 with about 20 seconds to go. In the last 10 seconds, the price went up a lot more than I expected it to! The eBay seller had found

The return of ... Kawai guitars

2010-09-04T10:46:00.000+01:00

My life has been completely swamped with work over the last few months. I've barely been into the workshop and there's certainly not been any guitar building activity. And I mean swamped to the extent of working 12-14 hour days, 6 days a week. I miss the challenges of guitar building and hope to get my life more balanced shortly. As well as building new guitars from scratch, another of my

Where did those months go?

2010-02-06T17:44:00.000Z

I've only just realised that I've not posted anything here for about 3 months. What happenned? Have I been in hibernation? Well, part of the reason is that "work" has been rudely interrupting my spare time over the last few weeks. Plus the time of year really doesn't help - when you leave home in the dark and don't return back until after dark, it's difficult to find the time or enthusiasm

Guitarist magazine / Mark Bailey

2009-10-23T16:45:00.000+01:00

Great to open this month's copy of Guitarist magazine (#322, November 2009) to see the "my guitar is" feature on the letters page ... The featured guitar was made by John Pollock on the Bailey build-your-own-guitar course at the end of August. I know John well, and I know how much he was both looking forward to, and fearing, the course - wondering whether his woodworking skills were quite up

Found another (couple of) Kawai guitars!

2009-09-20T12:49:00.000+01:00

There will be more about this posted on my Kawai guitars site (http://www.kawaiguitars.com/) but I thought I'd add a quick post here as the blog as a different readership ... I never thought that I'd find one of these anywhere It' s a Kawai "Rock 'n' Roll Star". Dates from the late 1970s / early 1980s. I've never seen one before, and if I didn't happen to have copies of the Kawai guitar

Another Kawai guitar ...

2009-09-14T22:30:00.001+01:00

Ooops ... I think I just added another Kawai guitar to my little (but becoming bigger) collection. Details and pictures will follow when it arrives. ps - don't tell anyone - especially my wife ;-)

Fretboard Radiusing

2009-09-03T08:31:00.000+01:00

Usually, fretboard radiusing is done using a shaped radiusing block, a lot of sandpaper, and a lot of effort. It can easily take an hour or more to work on an unshaped fretboard blank. A couple of months ago, I bought a router bit which had been designed specifically for fretboard radiusing: The bit actually came from a workshop in Vietnam! After 90 mins of using it in the router table, I had

Blog Update

2009-08-30T14:21:00.001+01:00

I've just added the Blogger "reaction" element to each post. As you read the blog entries, please tick a category depending on whether the entry has been interesting (but not much else!), helpful to you in some way ("thanks"), or just a complete waste of time ("no thanks"!).

Kawai Guitars - Rock'n'Roll Star

2009-08-22T09:08:00.003+01:00

A quick update on my fascination (or obsession) with Kawai guitars. The website, cunningly called http://www.kawaiguitars.com/ has resulted in quite a few emails from other Kawai owners around the world, looking for info on their Kawai guitars. Some I can help, some I can't. Last week I received an email from Toddy (bass player with BlondieUK) who was repairing a Kawai Rock'n'Roll Star. This

It's done - new build your own guitar is finished

2009-08-16T17:46:00.008+01:00

This one has had a bit of a troubled build ... it started as a simple, standard Tele-ish guitar with plain bi-coloured Ash body and a pre-made Warmoth birds-eye maple neck. I didn't like it (I've gone off Teles I think) so I re-made it. Carved the back, and the front of the body. Re-profiled the neck, taking about 3.5mm off the thickness. Stained the body, and then rubbed it all off, but left a

Guitar Tone?

2009-08-16T10:49:00.004+01:00

As part of my learning curve (it's a long and steep curve, with no end in sight!) about building guitars, I've been reading a lot of "stuff" about how different woods affect the tone of a guitar. And I'm sure that they're right - each piece of wood has its own unique characteristics, some of which will affect its tonal properties. But - and this is my problem - there are so many other factors

The truss rod slot

2009-08-13T13:31:00.006+01:00

For me, building guitars is a great learning process, challenging, frustrating and satisfying in almost equal measure. Yesterday was particularly satisfying ... there's something inexplicably pleasing about cutting a nice neat channel in a piece of wood. Three necks, ready for truss rod insertions. From the left, that's mahogany, maple and a walnut/maple/walnut laminate. See a perfect fit ...

Staining the guitar body. Ooops.

2009-08-10T11:19:00.006+01:00

Not my most successful weekend in the workshop. I decided to try to stain the newly shaped body. I'd sanded all the surface oil away, and used some wire wool and white spirit to try to penetrate a bit further into the body ... but judging by the splotchy staining effect, I didn't get all of the oil out of the wood. So, out with the sandpaper again and remove the stain. A few hours and a bit of

Quite a lot of guitar building in the workshop

2009-08-07T16:48:00.009+01:00

Having done the work on the guitar neck (see previous post), I decided to do some work on the body too. The original guitar body was standard Tele - slab sided with no shaping/carving. Plus the cavity cover looked "like something you did in your shed" according to one on-line critic. As I pointed out, it was not created in my shed at all. I did it in my workshop. But his point was right. This

A new neck

2009-07-31T13:47:00.006+01:00

A few weeks ago, I built a "quick Tele". It was quick partly because I used a pre-built (Warmoth) neck that I'd bought second hand. It's a great little neck. Or rather, a great *huge* neck. It was a monster, and became uncomfortable to play pretty quickly. Notice the lack of any shaping between the heel and the head of the neck. Warmoth necks are not cheap, and this was a particularly

Build you own guitar fret bender

2009-07-20T21:20:00.005+01:00

Apparently, if you try to fit fretwire into frets without bending it first, the ends have a tendency to pop out of the frets. Even when you hammer it in really hard. And then add some superglue too. The wonderful StewMac sell a fretwire bender, to bend the straight fretwire that they also sell. But they want $90 for it. Add shipping, and then ParcelFarce and the UK customs will add their bit, so

Completion

2009-06-03T13:37:00.005+01:00

This one didn't take long ... ... but still a bit longer than I'd hoped. I'd aimed to get this done over a long weekend, but good weather and a barbecue (=beer) intervened and caused a bit of a delay. I need to get some better natural light photos because the wood (bi-colour Ash) is nowhere near as brown/orange as these photos show it. It's much lighter.I made the body to house some BareKnuckle

Guitar building - progress

2009-05-30T16:13:00.004+01:00

Another Tele build. Using a piece of bi-coloured Ash. The grain pattern of this seems to be getting more distinct - and more attractive - the more that I work it. As you can see, all the routing is now done, and there's a strange (for a Tele!) shaped control cavity that's appeared ... ... I thought I might put some active electronics in this one, so I needed a bit more space in the control

Another Tele

2009-05-20T09:34:00.006+01:00

It's time for some more guitar building, although this one will be a slight cheat. I recently bought some BareKnuckle pickups (not cheating yet) and a Warmoth pre-made birds-eye maple neck (oops, maybe a slight cheat with that one?). I got them both second hand for a price that just meant that I had to buy them. As the BKPs are a set of "The Boss" p'ups, I've now got to build a Tele to house them

The Kawai collection is complete?

2009-05-18T02:33:00.003+01:00

The question mark at the end of the post title is deliberate ... just in case I stumble across another one somewhere, sometime. From the left ... KS-11-XL in violin sunburst. KS-12-XL in natural (mine from new in c1979) KS-10-Junior KS-12-XL in black KS-11-XL in natural - now fitted with a pair of PRS Dragon pickups.

Looks are deceptive!

2009-04-27T12:13:00.003+01:00

If you look at the previous post, you'll notice that the Kawai appears to be a little less than fully original. The bridge is certainly a replacement (although I did also manage to get the original unit, but the screws for the individual saddles have been stripped of thread) and I thought that one or other of the pickups was also non-original. All my other Kawais use the ivory-coloured open coil

Kawai Guitars

2009-03-03T21:05:00.003Z

I'm thinking about setting up a separate informational website just for the Kawai guitars. There is absolutely no information available on them on the www, and Kawai in Japan have no information either (I know, because I asked them!). I'm not a great fan of the Teisco-by-Kawai guitars of the 60s & 70s - the strange shaped ones with lots of switches and too many pickups. But I really do like the

Another Kawai ...

2009-02-22T14:23:00.003Z

Earlier this week a very helpful and observant reader-of-the-blog left me a message to say that he'd seen a Kawai guitar in his local music shop. This is a pic of that guitar. I phoned the shop and spoke with the very helpful owner, and the deal was done. On Friday, the guitar arrived. It's a Kawai KS-11-XL, in natural finish. A 1-piece mahogany body, 3 piece mahogany neck with a maple cap.

It's done!

2009-02-22T14:08:00.005Z

It feels like this one has taken ages, but it's actually only a couple of months. Probably feels like longer because I've been desperate to play it!It's finally all together, all wired, and all set-up. Thanks for assistance with the set-up go to Dr Robert (he of Guitarist magazine fame as well as many other roles!) Based, not very loosely, on the Yamaha SG2000, with a couple of SD HotRails.

I'm building another cheapo ...

2009-02-15T15:52:00.005Z

The people at the MusicRadar forum decided to do another £100 challenge. The challenge is to spend no more than £100, take no more than 1 month, and create a guitar. That might mean modding an existing old wreck, or building something from scratch. Last year, I built one from scratch - a Cherry Tele - but it really wasn't that good. I had decided to take it apart and scrap it (or re-use the

Finally, the latest guitar is almost finished

2008-12-31T13:07:00.006Z

If you've read the posts below, you'll remember that I did another make-a-guitar course in November. This course was less focused on a "make-a-guitar" and more focused on "learn-how-to-make-a-guitar". So, the guitar wasn't finished in the 5 days, but I learned a lot more tips and techniques, and 101 (useful) things you can do with a router. It's only with the Christmas break that I've had the

DIY fret press

2008-11-22T10:12:00.006Z

I know that you can do the fretting with a hammer ... but using a fret press is so much neater and quieter. And safer on the fingertips. Unfortunately, StewMac's fret press is a silly number of $$s (165 of them, plus shipping, plus duty, plus VAT, plus ParcelFarce handling fee), which adds up to quite a silly number of ££s with the current exchange rate. So I've been managing without one. But

Here are the pics of the caps

2008-10-12T14:36:00.003+01:00

I'm going to use one of these on the next guitar course. But which one? a. bicoloured maple b. maple burr c. quilted maple. This piece is about 10mm thick, so will take quite a lot of carving to shape the top. d. spalted maple. Very solid (for a spalted piece) e. or ... walnut ... Decisions, decisions, decisions!

November will be fun

2008-10-12T13:21:00.004+01:00

I've had no time to do any building in my own workshop, but I'm taking a long weekend in November to head off to Walesland to the workshops of Mr Neil Morgan, where he'll guide my attempts at another self-build. I'm hoping to pick up another set of tips, tricks and techniques from Neil, as well as to come away with another guitar. I'm planning on building a double cutaway, twin pickup guitar,

Still no building ...

2008-10-05T19:37:00.003+01:00

Still no building progress to report, but I have been busily adding to the stocks of materials and parts, so that when I finish working I'll be able to get building again. My current piece of work was due to end last week, but it's been extended towards the end of the year. Sort of a good news (money) - bad news (no guitar time) situation. I've just bought a couple of stunning looking tops/caps

Where did that time go?

2008-08-17T15:58:00.002+01:00

Anyone who's looked in here over the last couple of months might have wondered whether I'd given up guitar building ...The answer is definitely "no", but equally definitely that I've had no time to make any progress over the last few weeks. In fact, I think that I've found the problem with guitar building as a hobby ... it takes too much time, and doesn't fit too well around "work". At least, it

and finally ...

2008-07-13T12:04:00.004+01:00

This one has been more delayed than a National Express East Anglia train out of Liverpool Street on a Friday evening. Or - thinking about it - just about any other evening too. Finally, 'tis done ... I thinline-Tele-alikey thingy. Cherry body, with a (bookmatched no less!) Cherry top. Mahogany neck and a Wenge fingerboard. I got a bit adventurous with this one - see the mahogany inlay around

Necks

2008-06-26T09:18:00.004+01:00

Right ... think I'll make me some neck blanks ... Reading left to right, that's 3x sycamore, 4x sapele/mahogany, 2x walnut, 1x maple. That's a thick piece of maple too. The plan is to make up some laminated 3 piece neck blanks ... sycamore-walnut-sycamore, sapele-maple-sapele ... that sort of thing. If I get really adventurous, I may try adding some veneer layers between the main pieces of

DHL / StewMac - AMAZING service!

2008-06-26T09:10:00.004+01:00

Decided I needed a few more bits and pieces (about $800 worth as it turned out). Learning from my past mistakes with eBay scummers, I decided to go back to StewMac to buy those bits and pieces. OK, so StewMac is a bit more expensive, but you can't fault the range of stuff that they stock, the quality or their totally amazing service.I've used them once before, and was pleasantly surprised at the

Put it to the vote ...

2008-06-25T06:06:00.003+01:00

... here: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=36048 Someone suggested that build #2 should be submitted to the "Guitar of the Month" challenge on the Project Guitar forum ... so I have done! But, being something of a numpty, I managed to waste my vote (by opting just to look at the vote scores and submit a "null vote", d'oh), so I'll not be voting for my own build, but in

A pause ...

2008-06-21T09:36:00.002+01:00

There's been something of a pause in the build of my thinline Tele-alike ... it's done apart from finishing the fretting properly.I thought I'd get some decent tools to do the job properly (as it looks like I'll be repeating the job on a few builds in the future!), but rather than buying from a good, reliable, trusted source, I thought I'd venture into the the unknown of eBay.Now, eBay is great

Quick Pics

2008-06-13T11:22:00.002+01:00

Here's the new arrival ... And here it is with the rest of its family ...

Found the Kawai!

2008-06-13T08:37:00.003+01:00

This isn't really about guitar-building, but it's still about guitars so I'll share it anyway ... Finally, after years of searching, I've finally managed to track down a Kawai KS-11-XL. Actually, the seller tracked me down from the link on this blog! What's a Kawai KS-11-XL you may ask ... One of the Made-in-Japan quality guitars from the late 70's. This is an original Kawai design rather

No guitar building today ...

2008-06-07T19:12:00.002+01:00

... because I spent too much time here last night ...There are just some things that a man has to do ... apart from guitar building ... and sampling the odd glass or two of a few different varieties of freshly brewed beer is one of those things. But when I woke up this morning, I realised that someone had been hitting my head with a hammer all night. And they were still inside my head, still

Oiled

2008-05-31T17:12:00.002+01:00

Here's a quick shot of the body and neck after 3 coats of plain finishing oil. The oil has really brought out the grain of the wood, and emphasised the contrast between the cherry and the piece of mahogany inset into the body around the sound holes - that's come out better than I'd hoped.Before I started working with it, I'd not appreciated the beauty of cherry as a wood. You get some idea of

Progress

2008-05-29T16:37:00.003+01:00

At last, I've got on with build #2. I think the thought of fretting was working on my sub-conscious and making me delay it. I don't know why I thought it would be difficult, 'cos it was quite straightforward. The frets are all seated nicely in place and look fairly level. I'm waiting for some fret files to arrive from the US, so I can't finish the job just yet.As you can see, all the body

A lot more useful than planks of wood ...

2008-05-28T18:00:00.003+01:00

... is a pile of body blanks and caps ready for turning into guitars!The large plank (see below) of olive ash is now turned into 1 body blank, and - potentially - a couple of neck blanks. With some careful cutting, the smaller of the planks will yield another body blank, with some interesting colour variation.and this is the neck blanks (or maybe 2). As you can almost see, the grain is running

Wood

2008-05-20T13:38:00.004+01:00

This is probably a little sad, but I got really excited this morning when Mr TNT delivered a large and heavy (30kgs) package, full of bits of wood. Yup, bits of wood is now enough to get me excited.First, a couple of sets of walnut caps. These look pretty good in the photos (IMHO), but look way way better in real life, and that's before they've been oiled and finished. I think these are going

Finally, a little progress

2008-05-18T16:09:00.002+01:00

It seems like I've had no time for guitar-making recently. But I did manage to get a few hours in the workshop today, so there's been a little progress.First job was to drill the holes for, and fix in place, the (Vietnamese) mother-of-pearl fret markers. It looks a little messy where the superglue spilled out of the holes, but it dried eventually. I did have a can of glue accelerator somewhere

Where does time go?

2008-05-16T08:08:00.002+01:00

It seems that I've done nothing on this guitar build for ages. That's because I really haven't done a huge amount. I suppose that's what happens with a "hobby" ... sometimes you have time for it (or can make the time), othertimes other priorities take up the time - like "work" or making some dog agility jumps to support my wife's hobby!Hopefully, this weekend will see guitar-making some

2008-05-04T09:02:00.002+01:00

Yesterday's work ...The neck / body join looks good and tight ... although the neck is about 2mm too high. I realised that only after I'd spent 45mins getting the join as tight as I could. Next job - take 2mm off the neck pocket and check it again. Here's the routing done - always feels like a major milestone because it means that the neck join is OK (so that I can measure exactly where the

A whole week

2008-05-03T14:57:00.003+01:00

That's a week since my last update ... where did that week go to?I left last week's thrilling episode with the body and cap glued and clamped together. As the photo below shows, the clamps are off, and the body and cap are fixed together successfully. There's a bit of a glue line down the centre of the cap, but I'm expected (hoping) that the line will either disappear when I sand the front down

2008-04-26T17:10:00.003+01:00

It's been a bit too hot for too much manual work in the workshop ... but I managed to get some more work done.There's the truss rod fillet glued in place, and almost planed flush with the surface of the neck.And, after being clamped in place for a few hours, here's the neck with the fretboard now fixed in place too.That's the end of the easy work on the neck now. The rest of it is hard work -

Busy day yesterday ...

2008-04-24T10:17:00.005+01:00

Mmmm ... looks a bit thin for a guitar body ... That's actually a bookmatched cherry cap. I managed to cut one of my pieces of cherry in half (lengthways) with a bandsaw, and then thickness both parts down to just under 10mm. Plenty thick enough for a cap, and thick enough for a bit of shaping on the cap too.Can you guess what it's going to be yet ... This might not be the standard shaped

What's a thicknesser for?

2008-04-23T15:55:00.004+01:00

The answer to the question is - obviously - "it's for making a mess in the garden". I took this pic about half way through preparing the body from that piece of cherry (you can see a the edge piece with the bark still on it, propped up against the open door). It leaves a really smooth finish, nice and even, and saves a huge amount of time with the hand plane and sandpaper!

Build #2 starts here

2008-04-23T15:52:00.002+01:00

OK, here's the raw material:That's another piece of cherry plank, a sapele (mahogany-ish) neck blank, and (I think) a piece of Wenge for the fretboard. Yes, there's way too much cherry there for just one body, but that piece at the front has a number of "features" in it that make it unsuitable for the body, so I have other plans for it!

What did I learn on the course?

2008-04-23T15:47:00.004+01:00

I will be the first to admit, publically, for all to read, that I realise that building a guitar under the watchful eye of Mark Bailey is likely to lead to a better result than building one without his help, advice, guidance and repair expertise! But, at least I've tried once, and will try again and again. If I get just a little bit better, if I learn just a couple new tricks and techniques each

2008-04-20T18:07:00.003+01:00

The rest of the pics are now on-line in a photo gallery here.

Final Photos

2008-03-27T15:46:00.003Z

Some better photos of the final guitar ...

It's All Over ..

2008-03-25T21:47:00.005Z

The 5 days are at an end. Which is lucky, because I'm about as tired as I can get ... With apologies for the poor photo, this is what it's all been about: The photo really doesn't do justice to the quality of the guitar or the beauty of the wood. And it's finished, and it all works, and it's all just about perfect. Which makes me just a little happy. An exhausting 5 days, with lots of highs

The sealer coat ...

2008-03-24T23:43:00.005Z

A sneak preview - the guitar with its sealer coat on ... now the final coat is being applied. I think it looks OK ... ... in an absolutely stunning sort of way.

Out of the glue shop

2008-03-24T23:01:00.003Z

The guitar and neck are now irrevocably (I hope) joined ... The guitar (and neck) are now in the sprayshop, receiving a clear laquered finish. Might get to see it later tonight, or it may be tomorrow morning ... Tomorrow is day 5 in the 5 day project. The morning will be spent on the frets - levelling and dressing, cleaning and oiling the fretboard, fitting the hardware, setting-up and

Day 4 - Interim Update

2008-03-24T20:19:00.005Z

It might be cold, dark and windy outside (that's usual for Scotland apparently), but we're not finished yet. Taking a quick break for some food, before back to the workshop. Whilst we eat, the glue binding the neck to the body will set, and we can complete the final few steps before spraying. So, this is an interim update, with more to follow later. Probably much later. The day began here.

Late Update

2008-03-23T22:13:00.006Z

Bit of a late update tonight - because the working days are getting longer! Tomorrow's update could be even later ... but might just include a photo of the sprayed body ... First things first ... the cap and body joined together overnight, with the help of a lot of glue, and a lot of clamps. Here's the finished product - and you can see what the joined cap might look like. Plenty of time today

Day 2 is about the neck ...

2008-03-22T19:42:00.005Z

This is where the day began - the fretboard slotted and glued to the neck, but no other work finished on it ... yet ...A couple of hours later, and the marker dots have been glued in to the fretboard, the fretboard has been levelled (for the first of many times) and radiused. As you can see - 22 frets (and it's a 25" scale length). At this stage, the neck hasn't been shaped at all - it's still

20% Done

2008-03-21T20:10:00.005Z

Well, nearly all over then, really. Almost finished. Be time to plug in and play soon .. ;-) 20% done - in that we've finished day 1 of 5. And achieved quite a lot of the basic works. The bits of the project that make the difference between an OK guitar, and a great guitar. We'd got a bit of a headstart today in that we'd picked the pieces of wood, and planed and thicknessed it yesterda, before

I'm not alone ...

2008-03-20T23:19:00.004Z

It's not just me on this course ... Andy will create a Vox teardrop styled guitar, all mahogany with ebony fingerboard, and rubber (so he says) tuners ... that's if he gets his feet away from the log fire and into the workshop ... Edwin is building another Tele - birdseye maple cap and neck on a mahogany body. This is Edwin's second time on the course, but won't be just his second self-made

Time to Start

2008-03-20T20:39:00.009Z

Let the build begin! Step 1 is to choose the woods, and do the initial preparation. So here are a few pieces of mahogany (2 pieces to be joined for the body, plus another piece of mahogany for the neck) plus a piece of ebony for the fingerboard. The ebony has an interesting bit of colour variation in it, which doesn't really show up in the photos below ... My original plan was to use a maple

Decisions, decisions, decisions

2008-03-19T16:30:00.003Z

Normally I can make decisions. Decisions like "Pick A or B". "Buy 1 or 2". "Do we do it; Yes or No". I can make those decisions all day long.But this decision is causing me to lay awake at nights (ok, only briefly!) and to spend hour after hour flicking through the pile of guitar magazines yet one more time, looking for inspiration. There are 24 hours left for me to decide WHAT I'M GOING TO

PickUps & Parts

2008-03-18T11:35:00.004Z

These are the pickups that will be going into the guitar - a matched set of 3. They're single coil sized humbuckers.SoundclipsAlthough I still haven't decided whether to mix them up with a P90 in the middle position. Using a standard 5 position selector switch and a coil tap (only working on the humbuckers!), the mixture might give an "interesting" range of sounds. I think it will be a last

To Kawai or not to Kawai?

2008-03-16T15:39:00.005Z

My first self-build guitar was deliberately based on the body shape of the Kawai guitars from the late 70's - (the KS-10, KS-11-XL and KS-12-XL models). The Kawai was my first "real" guitar - too many years ago to remember exactly when. Those were great guitars, and I thought I'd base my first self-build on the Kawai design. The materials were different (Ash instead of Mahogany), and I used a

Current thoughts ...

2008-03-14T09:43:00.003Z

As of today, I'm still at the stage of thinking about the design, the construction and the materials.I *think* the build will be a traditional PRS-alike shape, using 3 single-coil-sized humbuckers. Body wood will be mahogany with a maple cap, and a maple neck with ebony fingerboard.But then I could change my mind completely before the build starts ... that's all part of the fun.I do have a P90

Preparing for the course

2008-03-13T14:43:00.010Z

I'll be doing the course that runs over the Easter weekend - 21st-25th March 2008.Last year, I posted progress updates on various guitar-related forums, and was amazed at the number of hits and comments that the posts generated. This year I've set-up this blog to publish the progress updates. My aim is to post updated pictures at the end of each working day. The days are long though, so don't