Category: Guitar
A Bent-Top Parlor Guitar
December 13, 2023
I wanted a guitar that played like an electric, but one that I didn't have to plug into an amplifier to hear. What I enjoy […]
A Busman’s holiday part 2. Finishing the guitar.
June 12, 2020
Finishing the guitar was pretty much a pain and took way longer than I expected. At first I was going to use violin varnish which I'm […]
A busman’s holiday. Building a nylon string guitar.
April 28, 2020
Luthierie in the time of Covid With the arrival of Corona Virus I realized that business would be slow for a while so I decided […]
Steel string guitar, Circa 1982
April 28, 2020
My introduction to Luthierie The first instrument I made was a steel string guitar. I'd seen someone in my Industrial Design course in college make […]
Guitar building for violin makers – violin and guitar function compared
April 3, 2020
Guitars and fiddles have a lot of similarities and some major differences. Comparing the two is an interesting exercise which sheds some light on how each instrument works. Stringed instrument building is essentially concerned with two things: