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This seems only appropriate as it seems a popular subject on BC. I'll start: Eric Johnson Robben Ford Steve Morse Brian Setzer Tuck Andress Mark Knopfler (at least the first 3 DS albums anyway). I've also recently been listening to a lot of Richie Kotzen, but I can't add him (yet) as he might be just this week's 'must listen to' player.

I am indeed, Charic, with my good mate, Gary (Cetera). It was excellent last year and I met a few more Greeks, amongst some other good folks, too

Excellent

And so, to braces. The top is not flat but is dished with a radius of c. 25 feet (I didn't know that before making one but this is pretty universal!) Curving the bottom of the main braces and pressing those down into a radius dish produces that shape. First was to cut out the brace basic shapes: Then to radius the bottoms so they fit snugly in their respective positions in the radius dish: Then to glue them to the top, you have to hold the braces down, pressing the top down into the dish until the glue has fully set. To do that, generally builders use a 'go-bar deck' - two squares of MDF or chipboard, secured by threaded rods: ..and then dowels or fibreglass rods used to press the braces and top into the radius dish: And when it's set, the braces hold the top in the 25' radius spheroidal shape:

OK, I'll start a thread. It's friday and I've had a drink

Thanks I do many bits at a lower level too, many of which you've probably seen I'm pretty sure many of us would like to see some of your work (hint hint!). I certainly would

Welcome mate enjoy the forum

Ian Bairnson is an unsung hero. You could sing his solos all day and such a fabulously melodic player. That's him on the end solo of "Wuthering heights' NOT Dave Gilmour as a lot of people thought. His body of work with The Alan Parsons Project is so strong but I heard recently that due to ill health and some sort of condition, it's forced him to stop playing

Liking quite a bit there from the OP and there are so many to choose from. Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson for starting it all for me I like the Steely Dan contributors with Larry Carlton top of the list Robben Ford, particularly the 'Talk to your Daughter' period and sound A lot of the LA and AOR guys like Steve Lukather, Michael Thompson, Tim Pierce and the mighty Dann Huff. The sounds are as much of an influence as is the playing My 'Rhythm Kings' are Nile Rodgers, Paul Jackson Jr, Andy Summers and I'll include Eddie Van Halen, as well l

You build some fine instruments, keep 'em coming! I do a bit myself (at a lower level) and need threads like this to get the juices flowing!

Partly because this is a 'bitsa' build, the sequence is a little bit haphazard - and probably so is this thread. Before I go onto bracing and the black magic of tap tuning, a quick update of the fretboard above. It is Macassar Ebony and is actually an offcut from the lightweight (5 1/4 lbs) 'Nyhavn Swift' I built recently for my sister-in-law: As such it is ONLY just long enough! The plan calls for 25 3/8" but my fret-slot template is 25 1/2" - so that's the scale I'm going with First I radiused the blank on my slightly dodgy home-made radiusing jig: Then slotted the frets using a G&W mitre box: I've actually got a choice of two offcuts for the neck - a mahogany /walnut/mahogany blank from my first dreadnought build but also this maple/walnut/maple offcut left over from my last bass build. I've never tried a maple neck on an acoustic so I thought I'd go for that: The heel - and the offcut of the offcut - isn't quite deep enough for a two piece heel - so I might set in a piece of angled decorative wood and make a 3-piece look like it was supposed to look like that Clearly, there's a lot more to do here, but next post will be back to the body build which - so far - is progressing nicely.

MGAW from before here..hello chaps

Another Bass Chatter here and loving what you’ve done with the place.... I like having a separate forum to discuss the “love that dare not speak its name” and get help working out what to do with the extra two strings and wonder why they’re tuned a semitone different to the others. I hope this place develops a vibe of its own - but also keeps the overall air of mutual respect and tolerance that has made BC such a great place to hang out for the last few years. Gear-wise, I’ve got “enough” guitars - according to the Good Lady, anyway. Possibly the most unusual being a nice K-line Mustang-a-like that I picked up a few years ago for a very good price. I didn’t like the authentic P90 hum so I put a pair of Kinsman pickups in it and got it set up by the phenomenal Jon Haire in Peterborough. I’ve since added a Roland GR77 pickup to it and made it my second favourite guitar. The favourite being the Epi ES175 I picked up a few weeks back..... Anyway, hello fellow BC refugees and to those single-minded characters who only came here for the guitars....

John McGeoch (Magazine, Banshees, PIL, etc) is without doubt my all time favourite guitarist due to his endless creativity. Other guitarists that have been an influence on me are Nile Rodgers, Robin Simon, Geordie Walker and Andy Taylor - you can tell I grew up in the 80s can't you.

So many... in sort of no particular order... Gordon Giltrap - right at the top of my list Gary Moore Steve Howe Phil Keaggy Wes Montgomery Alex Lifeson Ian Bairnson - Pilot, Kate Bush and The Alan Parsons Project Brian Robertson/Scott Gorham - The Classic Thin Lizzy line up! Stevie Ray Vaughan Larry Carlton ...that’ll do for now.

I like Larry Carlton