Next step was to sort out the cavities on the body and tidy up some of the holes. Now, any luthier purists or trained joiners should loo...

So, in quite typical fashion I’ve forgotten exactly what I did 10 years ago... either a sign of age or generally using up the available s...

Many moons ago, and I do mean many, a friend at school sat me down to teach me the chords to Hey Joe while he noodled the solos over the ...

Next step was to add some UV stained Olympic White. Que nerves again. The first step is to damage a perfectly good headstock and key the...

Been a few weeks faffing and experimenting with the headstock on the Bullet. One of my first decisions when I started the project was to...

Body, check; neck, check; template, check.... pickguard? I’ve bought a sheet of 2mm white single ply pickguard material from Tonetech Lut...

The next step was to transfer the paper CAD template onto ply wood and cut out a more rigid guide for routing out the plastic pickguard. ...

Next step on the Bullet project is to cut a plywood template for the pickguard. I could just translate the CAD file onto the plastic and...

The neck arrived and the next challenge arose! These early Bullets had Telecaster style necks with the smaller headstock, due in some par...

With the neck not yet on my door step I tackled the bridge instead. With the pickguard template complete, it would be foolish to cut it ...

The first job on the Bullet was to get a neck on order, but I’ll cover that a bit later. Whilst I was waiting for that to be delivered, t...

So this is the first post for the first project. I recently popped into a small local guitar shop for the first since I moved house and w...