Guitar making must be in my blood.
I am told that I started at the age of 4, when I dismantled (broke!) a plastic guitar toy, and then managed to fix it, but I don't remember much about that.
My first foray into guitar building was around 1958 (yep,I'm that old!)when skiffle was the rage. After several aborted efforts, I managed to make an acoustic guitar from a tea chest, and some lengths of discarded wood mouldings.
Using a shopbought guitar from a friend, I traced out the shape of the body, measured the fret distances and managed to get something that actually looked like a guitar. It sounded OK as well!!!
All the hardware came from a fantastic shop, the like of which you don't find now. If any of you knew Manchester in the late 1950s, then the place to buy anything electrical or musical was Mazel Radio.
To be continued when I can get a decent keyboard!! all this tapping on a tablet is giving me finger cramps.
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