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Category Archives: News My other guitars in progress are in Patrick’s hands at the moment for clear coats, he’s doing great-they are turning out fantastic (see below). So in the interim i put some time in on the roughing work on my next guitars. Some interesting stuff here- A thinline model 15 for Donato Soviero, a Model 16 […]  Continued work on these projects. Some cool stuff to see is the OM inlay for Gilad’s fretboard, serial engraving, side bending, etc. Check out the deep earthy staining! I’m using really fine European cello tonewood here throughout. During carving I ran into a hidden defect on Gilad’s backplate. We talked about it and decided to […]  Here’s a guitar I have available. Its is very unusual for me to have an instrument in stock ready for immediate delivery, I am usually always working on commissioned work. Not sure when i will have a guitar in stock again. It was originally commissioned by my client Bryce Sutherland. Turns out another Model 14 […]  Moving right along! Various shop shots… lots of pics of how i calculate my high access neck joint. Complicated but worth it! Also check out the cool little mini floating block that Gilad asked me to develop!  Wow heres some great pics of an early VB archtop that Fred Rizzo sent me. He said he just bought it used and its in mint condition. SO COOL to see one of my earlier guitars again!!!  Well its been completely nuts here at the shop working to complete my fall projects, which are just about all wrapped up. I should have all those instruments finished and delivered within the week. Not to let anyone think i’ve been sitting idle otherwise (haha!), heres the first of my winter projects that i’m doing. […]  I finished the majority of clear lacquer coats on the guitars about 2 weeks ago, and they are looking great. I started polishing the guitars earlier this week and decided that a couple more coats was in order. They will take a few more days to harden up again and i will get back to […]  All four of the guitars I’ve been working on came together quite well, and are all sanded out ready for paint. One guitar will be a tiger eye finish like this, two will be winebursts like this (initial ground stain shown here- more color work coming up), and the forth will be a dark green […]  Been doing TONS of work to the current projects. Moving along nicely! Hope to have assembly finished by the end of this week- then on to staining and finishing!  Neck work on guitars for my clients Noah M, Noah P, and Jon! This is the preliminary machining work. The blanks are roughed out very consistently and accurately on the cnc, and are ready for hand tweaking for the final feel.  More work on guitars for my clients Noah M, Noah P, and Jon! Mostly rim work, some plate laminating…  Gettin started on a few guitars for my clients Noah M, Noah P, and Jon. Trying to keep my Noah’s straight haha!! These guitars will be two 15″ guitars and a 14″ laminate. They all have customized specs and alterations that the guys picked out. Its going to be a blast getting these 3 together! […]  All the paint is done! Parts and inventory items are on order! I’m about to go on vacation (I’ll be back in the shop Sept 3rd), but I wanted to do a quick picture post of all my current projects. I’ll be doing the assembly and set up work on the guitars as soon as […]  Here are 3 of the projects i’ve been working on this summer! Ive been taking a slight break from my onslaught of blog picture taking but i wanted to snap a few pics of these guitars after they got their final clear coats. Looking sweet! The first one is a violin shade ergo archtop. Basically […]  Ive been working on a guitar for my client Einar in Norway. He wanted a combination of features from my past guitars, and it has turned out great. This series of pics shows some of the build process, staining work , matte finishing as well as plenty o bench shots during setup. It has a […]  I made all the hardware yesterday and today and just strung up the 7 string i am making for Stan. YES! Building an archtop is a long and winding road but the trip is almost done for this bad boy. Sounds and plays cool so far, I’ll spend the next week or two tweaking and […]  I started on a project for Stan Charkey, who plays a seven-string electric guitar retuned as an Elizabethan lute. He is on staff at Marlboro college and is a composer / performer. He came by the shop last year to discuss his needs in a guitar and to show me the instrument he is currently […]  I’ve had some really great results with my laminate 14’s lately. This project is an experiment with the same body style, but this time with a carved top / back and traditional bracing. Its basically the same guitar as my floating block semi 14’s, but with no block. Gilad Hekselman came by the shop with […]  Ive been trying to document more of the guitars through recordings, as well as play my own compositions. A lot of people have been asking to hear the guitars, and its a lot of fun to record them so its a win win all around! Here’s one i did the other day with some friends […]  Heres the photo finals for Brian’s guitar that shipped out last week. Turned out great! I didn’t have a chance to do any recording with this one unfortunately, but it sounded similar to the other ones in the batch. Heres what Brian had to say about the guitar (wow thanks man!!!): Victor – The guitar […]  The Ergonomic archtop project I’ve been having so much fun working on is a wrap. It left the shop Thursday for Chicago to meet Dan, and will eventually find its home in Bangkok Thailand where he teaches. I have a bunch of stuff to present in this post about it, Ive had TONS of interest […]  James’ laminate 14″ shipped out on monday, but before it left for its new home in the UK I snapped a bunch of pics and recorded some audio. Theres an excellent recording studio right down the hall from my shop (Soundworks), and i decided to kill two birds with one stone by recording some of […]  This week I took a break from my current projects for a couple days in order to do a CNC inlay project i’ve been planning for a while. I was checking out some works by art nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and found one of his works “Dance” that blew me away. I decided to try […]  Here’s the last of the 4 laminates in the run, this one is a custom color request in transparent dark purple. Bryce set me a photoshop edited version of one of my previous guitars. He had come up with a deep dark trans purple color for me to reference. I’m always excited to do one […] |
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