My first student at Hart's Guitar's Co. Ltd has been a friend of mine for a long time. His wife bought him a spot in my guitar building intensive as what must be the coolest gift ever for anyone who plays guitar.
You just can’t find anything more special than the guitar you’ll build with me using your own hands.
A glass half full is one thing but this half-size guitar is 9/10ths full.
As I was still building guitar 001, I was processing a ton of info through books and videos. One luthier that caught my attention was making guitars with the sound hole in other locations than the typical middle of the waist under the strings location. From the beginning, I've had the intent to make nylon…
After a year and three months of obsessive learning, working and more learning....I have three guitars for sale in one of the coolest stores in Atlanta, Big House Guitars. My guitars are on the far right, two up top and one (steel string) below. On the top row of the guitar wall, mine are the…
For fun, between guitars 004 and 005, I decided to build a ukulele into this cigar box I've had around the house for a while. It was fun, annoying, then fun, frustrating, infuriating, and then fun again. It took me two work days. Now that I know the process, I'll build a few more and…
I have agreed to a deal with a local guitar shop....
The bridge serves as a conduit to and distributes the strings tension onto the soundboard. I had my mind blown the first time I read it explained this way: the strings do not...
I've spent more time than I care to remember fixing things in the process that I did in haste, overlooked, didn't consider, measured wrong, didn't set up correctly (like not checking to make sure the blade is square
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. Today I had to do something that never occurred to me I'd have to (but I'm sure there'll be more instances in the future). I removed the back from my current build, 004. There was a problem with the neck angle (current theory, but could…
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