Category Archives: Jazz guitars Going steady on the fall 5 at the shop. Heres a bunch of assorted pics of various parts and processes!  I just dropped Danny’s guitar off at Fedex for its long trip to the Philippines. So exciting to send a guitar around the world. Good music, good life! This guitar was a real blast to build, the special edition guitars always have some great features. This one has a headstock inlay interpretation of an Alphonse […]
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 These guitars are for my clients Donato and Patrice who are return customers (this is their 2nd VB each). I’ve been tweaking and adjusting, playing and polishing. Serious fun! Both are great guitars I will be sad to see them go haha! Here’s some quick iphone pics of them both:  Its fall here in NYC and September is my favorite month of the year. Wow! Ive been back in the shop for a few weeks doing lots of work on the summer projects. They are nearing completion, and I thought it would be a great time to fire the blog up again after taking a […]  Work on the summer project kinda comes to a halt after the guitars are all strung up and settling in anticipation for their final fretwork and adjustments. This usually takes about 10 days or so, and in the meantime i shift gears into the new projects on the schedule.I’m taking on 5 guitars this time […]  Here’s a VERY fun inlay project that is for the headstock on the model 16 I am working on for my client Dan Ibasco. The materials are figured pearl, quilted mahogany as well as recovered genuine ivory for the face. All bordered with flame koa. SUPER COOL!  I’ve been super hard at work on my summer guitar projects, and as usual have a slew of progress shots of all the various steps. This run of 4 has a little of everything- a 14″, 15″ 16″ and a 17″. Very special woods throughout as well as some cool inlays and binding work on […]  The early summer projects are all finished and delivered! Here’s the final photos on the model 17 archtop serial no. 300. I did it!! Yesssss! This one will go to live at the Jersey shore with my longtime client Ernie (who also has No 250 and a slew of my other guitars- a lot of […]  The early summer projects are all finished and delivered! Here’s the final photos on the Model 15 archtop. This one will go to live in France with my client Patrice.  The early summer projects are all finished and delivered! Here’s the final photos on the model 17 archtop. This one will go to live in Germany with my client Rolf.  The early summer projects are all finished and delivered! Here’s the final photos on the laminate 14 archtop. More info and sound here: http://www.victorbakerguitars.com/blog/?p=7483  I’m real excited about how my latest Model 14 laminate turned out, I made it purely for inventory which is a rare occurrence these days. I’ve been shedding on an odd meter tune I wrote recently (here’s the chart) and decided to make a little youtube video with the guitar. I recorded a rhythm backing […]  Another huge blog post here- continuing with construction phase stuff through coloring / finishing all the way to hardware assembly and install. At this point the guitars are all strung up (YESSS!!!) and settling in. Just need to do final fretwork and setup / tweaking and they will be ready to ship. Photo finals coming […]  Lots of progress on all the projects in the shop. Been working tons of hours on things and it’s shaping up and looking good. Many various stages here- bracing, rim work, neck mounting, glue ups, and wood binding installation. Next up- complete sanding and prep, then staining and painting. The archtop building process is LONG […]  So the catch 22 with hollow archtop guitars is the more the carved guitar is voiced for maximum resonance, the more it is susceptible to feedback problems at high volume. This is because the wood not only responds to its own string vibration, but also to anything around it (bass player, drummer or even a […]  Shipped out a couple guitars this week to their new owners. Suuuuuper fun guitars to make, its hard to see them go after all that is involved. Thankfully i have plenty of other guitars to shift my focus to haha! My camera was a bit out of focus on a few of these, kind of […]  Rolling along on neck assembly, things are looking great. Seriously into the look of the new crown inlay theme. All the necks are turning out sweet!  Had a BLAST doing the headstock inlay on number 300. Super fun watching it come together. It took a lot of planning and scheming to get all the pieces to fall into place with the right layering. It was super dicey cutting through the brass sections with that tiny .015 diameter detailing bit. I just […] 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 […]  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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