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I've been in the guitar game for my entire life. I've been building since 1998 and I have heard many many time that we're running out of wood. Well I still buy wood in what ever quantity I need and I still buy almost every species of wood I choose. While it might be true some of the old standards ar...

With such a short scale you can use fairly heavy strings and still have low tension and easy action.

Actually Spanish Cedar is my neck wood of choice on 12 fretters and especially Parlor Guitars. A good modern truss rod is more than sufficient to strengthen it.

Hello MIMF! It's been a while since I'm been here but I'm glad MIMF is still going strong. Anyway I've made a huge departure from the norm and decided to build a Les Paul in a box because I parted with my Telecaster in 2014 and have been minus an electric since. The Paul is Chinese Epiphone reject b...

One kit will tell you just about everything you'll need to know. It will show you what the finished parts are supposed to look like. I learned from a builder and much of it was seeing the parts as ready to be fitted. Buy a kit. You don't have to build it just seek to reproduce what you see in the ki...

I've haven't used a mold since 2003. I like the compactness of a bending pipe that can be clamped to a kitchen table if necessary. I do make a half profile from light styrofoam board to test the sides to. Free bending isn't all that difficult. My early efforts were 1/4" from form pattern. I can...

I'm not really new but I am new to what seems to be a new version of MIMF. I'm still building and have a rather large new project in the works.