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It seems like I have been doing repairs this summer more than building. I got a guitar in to repair last week from Rod, who fixes my car when needed. Unlike most of the guitars I work on, this is … Continue reading
Category Archives: workshop
After action change
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About three weeks ago I posted about a guitar that needed an intervention. Built by another luthier about 8 years ago, the guitar (a double top) has many issues. The most sever one being the action… the height of the … Continue reading
Picture studio
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Here is how I usually set up to take pictures of completed guitars. I have clamp lights which I cover with gauze or paper towels to soften shadows. The background is one of several that can use (but it is … Continue reading
High action treatment
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A friend brought his guitar to me to fix. The most serious problem was the action… about 1.6 mm too high at the 12th fret for both the bass and treble E strings. The cause: the neck had pulled up … Continue reading
New Guitar Photos – “Juno”
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Here are some pictures of JUNO, (as in the name of the space probe) Romanillos style body and top East Indian Rosewood sides and back European spruce top. Box Elder rosette background, with torch theme 650 mm scale length Contact … Continue reading
Duo Tenebroso
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I spent the afternoon in Weigand Hall with Kristen Waligora and David Franzen, also known as Duo Tenebroso I met both of them as individuals before, but this is the first time I heard them play as duo live. Great … Continue reading
A Strad Story
How can you be sure that you have found the instrument for you? What is important? The fame of the builder? The romance of the story behind the instrument? The actual instrument? Mythology? Snobbery? Practicality? If you were blindfolded, if … Continue reading
New Guitar – “Pluto”
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Another new guitar. This one is Pluto. In case you are wondering, try googling “New Horizons, Gravitational Waves, Pluto”, or just click here. Euro Spruce, Honduran Rosewood. Hauser style.
New Guitar – Gravity Waves
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I couldn’t fit “gravitational” onto the label. Here is a new kid on the block. I got most of this wood for this particular instrument from a dear friend a decade or so in the past. The top is haselfichte … Continue reading
Ekachai and the third twin…
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A while back… I posted about the third twin.. er triplet. Ghost Spruce http://ganzguitars.com/wp/index.php/2015/09/28/the-third-triplet-see-through-cedar/ It has been strung up for a while now and I’ve been playing it.. and playing around with it. I installed an arm-rest, a tap plate … Continue reading