Been doing a lot of tweaking on Gilad’s new guitar! He’s been traveling for the last several weeks and left his new axe with me to tweak and adjust. The longer you wait before making final adjustments on a new guitar, the more likely the guitar has finished reacting / settling to the new tension […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Man where does the time go? I’ve started work on my 300th guitar this month along with 2 other spring projects. I started making my first guitar back in 1998, and if you would have told me then that in 2013 i would be starting my 300 guitar i would have called you a dreamer. […]
Read this for info on my 300th guitar project! First work on the new crown inlay theme!!! The exterior is cut from brass sheet, the interior is flame koa to match binding!
Read this for info on my 300th guitar project! Heres the steps for binding the F holes in flame koa!
Read this for info on my 300th guitar project! Here’s the first steps of the work done on the headstock inlay!!!
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Read this for info on my 300th guitar project! Plate Carving! SERIOUS Bearclaw Euro spruce top wowwwww mother nature is a genius. Super beautiful Euro Maple, and check out the new interior engraved label! I laid awake all night thinking up that one a while back. haha
Here’s a track i recorded the other week with my group. Its one of my original tunes yet to be titled. I have to say i have come up with a great recipe for laminate guitars, I really am pleased with the tone. Not all laminate plates are created equal! I use high quality maple […]
Heres a couple new guitars that i have started that i am making alongside the No. 300 project. A Model 17 with full maple binding for Rolf in Germany. And a Model 15 thinline for Patrice in France. Both will have super nice European woods throughout. Here’s some preliminary pics, these projects are actually much […]
This is a BIG boy! 18″ archtop for a my client Jonathan S. It’s Super 400 size, fun to play with a huge sound! What a blast this one was. Just gotta let it settle and then do the final fret work!!
I’ve made a lot of progress on my late winter projects. This post shows a lot of the binding work for the guitars. I used really bright European maple for a nice contrast, almost like white binding. Takes a LOT of work to bend the multiple layers just right and get it cleanly in place. […]
Here’s a chambered model 14 that I just finished up for my client JK in Toronto. Great little guitar with a tiger eye stained spruce top. I’ll never get tired of seeing how the relatively plain looking Sitka spruce suddenly explodes with various figure and pattern when stained. The mahogany back and Spanish cedar neck […]
Here’s the latest instrument I’ve made for Gilad! It’s a model 15 with some tweak we came up with for an alternate and different sound Gilad was looking for. Gilads first guitar has been in service for quite a while and has a fantastic well balanced electric jazz tone. For this guitar he was looking […]
YESSSS!!!! I love how the spruce top reacts to the staining process. Looks like lightning strikes through the wood or something! Very organic and earthy vibe, mother nature does all the work on getting these finishes looking sweet.