My Taylor T5z 12-string does not come with a pickguard.

My design skills suck, so I am sending this off to the interwebs for ideas.

I will be using an adhesive pi k guard until I finalize the design.

what action, measurement on the 12th fret for 1st high e and 6th low e string and string gauge using with it the best on eletric guitar?

Picked up a cheap DIY SG kit to get into building guitars. Used an enamel spray paint that’s refusing to cure. Will baking at 170 degrees F cause issues on the fretboard? Have let it sit for about 2 weeks and still have a tacky feel to it.

Thanks and don’t roast me too hard, just starting out lol.

This all I got made currently, like half the body and a neck

I have a chance to buy this double bass for 200€ the bridge and tailpiece is included. However it doesnt have a fingerboard installed.

My main question is about the one included, it looks like its in a very bad shape. Can I install the fingerboard thats included? I have experience with building guitar necks, and I have read some guides. So I think I should manage to do it on my own. I am going to have a look at this bass in the weekend, what should I look out for?

Hello. I'm a collector of banjo ukuleles, and I've recently been working on one with a sunburst neck, possibly maple, finished in what appears to be nitrocellulose lacquer.

While adjusting the nut, I put some hobby masking tape on the back of the neck, assuming it would be safe. Unfortunately, when I removed it, it pulled off two small paint chips from the black section of the sunburst. Thankfully the chips were quite small.

To repair them, I used a Hycote Gloss Black Touch-Up Paint (brush applicator) to fill the chips. After it dried, I lightly levelled the repairs with very fine-grit sandpaper, but this has left a few lighter patches around the repaired areas, as shown in the photos.

I'm wondering if there's a way to improve the appearance of the finish now. The original "sunburst" wasn't particularly refined to begin with, so I'm open to carefully blending or refining it rather than simply hiding the repairs. Given that the finish appears to be nitrocellulose lacquer, I'd appreciate advice on the safest way to restore the gloss and blend the repaired areas without causing further damage.

This has happened to me twice already on different necks (first two times leveling frets). After doing a fret level I check and every single fret was level, but one day after I checked again and the frets weren't completely level.

After leveling, I crowned the frets and checked again, all good. I progresively sanded from 320 to 3000 grit and checked after 320 and 400, all good.

The day after I check again and the fret rocker is rocking. I glued down every single fret btw with a bit of super glue on each end before leveling and waited a day or two before leveling.

This has happened twice on two different necks, albeit this was my first time doing a fret job.

This is kind of driving me crazy. What could I be doing wrong? Is it the cheap wood? Both these guitars were cheap chinese guitars. Or is it just me?

Hey everyone, I'm struggling to find a plate joiner jig that fits backs for acoustics. Many of the backs I've bought are 230mm x2 each, but the joiner I have from Guitars and Woods only takes up to about 215mm x2.

I know i can just cut them but I'd prefer not to cut, join, then cut again. I'm hoping to find this style of joiner which has a much wider possibility. I can only find it from US sellers. Anyone have a good source for plans for this?

Been woodworking for a bit now and always thought building a guitar would be cool but the project always intimidated me. Finally got the guts to do it and this is how it turned out! Was definitely NOT without its bumps in the road. Got ahead of myself with the epoxy stuff and routed the design and poured before knowing where the hardware needed to be. So ended up making an entirely new body. Same with the neck and fretboard. Routed the truss rod channel on the wrong side of the neck and messed up cutting the frets on the fretboard. So I have essentially an entire second guitar worth of “lessons learned”. First time doing a cerused finished, first time working with epoxy, first time building a guitar, but absolutely not the first or last time I learn a few lessons while working on a project! Body is red oak, neck is maple, and fretboard is purpleheart.

I got this poor telecaster body from a student. After some retooling I was ablek to get it back to the classic telecaster body shape. Before I got it the guy had not paid attention and didnt glue the book match correctly.

Since its already a reject I decided to customize it. Im adding some extra thick binding to both the front, and back. So far the front is done. Im working on the back.

Once its done im going to do a 1/2" round over instead of the standard 1/8" roundover

Designed a custom preamp board for a hexaphonic piezo bridge I found. Now my bad tone is only a reflection of my poor coding skills rather than my gear.

Hobby builder. Bought a couple of planks of pau ferro, an old chunk of Honduran rosewood and a walnut board with an interesting grain. Resawed the pau ferro and added ears for width. Carved a walnut neck and made a Honduran rosewood fingerboard and bridge. V-braced a redwood top. Tung oil finish. Fortunate to have my friend Suzanne Frank playing it. Recorded on my phone. https://youtube.com/shorts/zBCgYNDH6YM?si=jrBbInCVNFhC_otG

Any advive for a noob would be much appreciated, its my first time doing this kind of body work, am just figuring it out as I go

its covered with a spray on putty, since the wood was shit anyway I just roughed it out with files then covered it with the spray on putty so i can finish it without worrying about removing to much material, as i can just put it back on, it also gives really clean edges and is fairly easy to work

Hi! Having some electronics issues, would greatly appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. I followed the attached wiring diagram for an SH configuration. I used the option shown in the box, and also added a resistor (going from neck pickup to ground) so the single-coil pickup sees the pots at around 250k.

The issue:
- It was working fine for a few hours and then started acting up
- All positions now sound like the high end has been filtered out, as if the tone knob is rolled all the way down. However, that’s with the tone knob wide open, and it gets darker as I roll it down (tone pot behaves normally, but overall tone is incredibly dark and muddy, not how it was at first)
- Volume does not completely cut when I roll the volume pot all the way down. There is still audio coming through when the guitar should be completely silent

Relevant observations:
- The middle position (and the humbucker) are noise canceling as expected
- Because the guitar sounded normal at first, I don’t think it’s a matter of wiring it incorrectly. it’s not the cleanest job, but I made sure all connections are secure and used heat-shrinking tubes (and some blue tape) to keep any exposed wires from touching each other

Has any of you encountered this particular set of issues before? I’m wondering if the volume pot is broken internally, which could account for it not going silent when all the way down, but could that also be darkening the tone of the guitar?

Thanks