Hold The Line

Alex Bishop takes extra special care to "measure twice and cut once" in the crucial task of neck joining

- Alex Bishop

One frequent question I’m asked about guitar making is, “What is the hardest part about building a guitar?” It’s normally preceded by, “How long does a guitar take to build?” (somewhere between 100 hours and one lifetime) and “Where do you get the wood from?” (well, this one was built from a chopped up dining table…). The truth is that the easy part of guitar making is actually making the guitar, and the hardest part is working out how you’re going to go about it in the first place.