The triangle and I O I O marking trick that cancels out a fence that is slightly off square, plus reading medullary rays, working around knots, and gluing up a vanity top and leg blanks.

Matt Flaherty of Texas Toast Guitars on the line between a handmade guitar and a homemade one, how the Great American Guitar Build Off pays out, and what next year might require.

Local pine rescued off the town brush pile before it got chipped. Sanding pine from 80 to 220, why you scribble on it with a pencil first, and setting a hand relief radius with a spray paint can.

Denver wedding halls wanted fifteen grand for the room and fifteen more behind the bar. How the Great American Guitar Build Off got built anyway, and what changes for 2027.

Polka bands at eleven, twenty seven years at Coors, twenty years on upright bass, and the two emails about free beer that turned into fourteen Texas Toast guitars.

Milehouse Studios went from fitting kitchens for twenty years to nearly 100,000 subscribers in two. Paul Richards on the line from his dad that started it, and why comparison is fuel rather than poison.

What came home from the Great American Guitar Build Off, why you should wax your pickguard screws, and the electric dulcimer I have no idea how to build yet.

Dylan from Dylan Talks Tone on the people, the gear, and the 45 Telecasters that made the first Great American Guitar Build Off worth the drive to Denver.

A KAISH bridge, a CNC file drawn for a different one, and how to drill post holes deeper without ruining a body. Plus why you should never put a power driver on pickguard screws.

I routed a Jazzmaster body like it was taking humbuckers. It was not. How to fix a too-shallow pickup cavity with a pattern bit without wrecking the shielding.