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  • Electric Guitar Build – Double Cut Away Carved Top

    Electric Guitar Build – Double Cut Away Carved Top

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    February 19, 2025
  • Guitar Binding Repair

    Guitar Binding Repair

    Here’s the photo chronicle of a bit of binding repair from a Martin guitar that came in. Some of the binding on the back of the guitar had totally separated at the waist. A bit of binding was also loose on the top and along the fingerboard. This guitar has a multi-layered binding, some of…

    February 6, 2025
  • Banjo Fretwork Approach

    Banjo Fretwork Approach

    Good tools, good lighting, and good magnification make good fretwork possible. Ideally, the frets on an instrument should “disappear”. The player should be able to do their thing without having to pay special attention to the frets. Frets should support the player in their music. I use a structured approach to evaluate fretwork.

    January 31, 2025
  • Guitar Top Crack Repair

    Guitar Top Crack Repair

    A dreadnought style guitar came in recently with a crack in the top. The crack reached from the bottom edge of the bridge all the way to the binding on the edge of the top. This crack was pretty open, seemed like it may have been that way for a while, and the edges of…

    January 21, 2025
  • 5-String Open Back Banjo

    5-String Open Back Banjo

    I recently (as of 1-10-2025) completed building this 5-string open back banjo. It came out really nice! Read more about it over on the Thumpy Banjo website.

    January 10, 2025
  • Acoustic OOO Guitar

    Acoustic OOO Guitar

    I recently built this guitar from a kit produced by the C.F. Martin Company. It turned out great! Plays and sounds wonderful. It has a classic combination of tone woods, a spruce top with mahogany back, sides, and neck.

    January 10, 2025

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