What’s On My Bench

  • A Sonic Fingerprint

    A Sonic Fingerprint

    The backs are on the two guitars I’m building to compare bracing patterns, and this allows me to measure the main frequencies of each guitar body. The results…

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  • More on Guitar bracing

    More on Guitar bracing

    Last month I described an experiment I’m conducting with 2 different bracing styles on 2 guitars I’m building.  The tops are now attached to the ribs, so I…

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  • Head to Head with a loar

    Head to Head with a loar

    One of my highlights of the Wintergrass festival was visiting the vintage instrument room. How amazing to be able to pick up and play 100+ year-old guitars and…

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  • A Child comes home!

    A Child comes home!

    Last week, before heading to the Wintergrass festival, I had a visit from Neal Curran, who bought an F-5 Mandolin from me 12 years ago. Neal has been…

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  • Guitar Building Class!

    Guitar Building Class!

    I’m honored that the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) has asked me to teach a class on guitar building beginning next month. My assignment is to guide six…

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  • Nuts about string spacing

    Nuts about string spacing

    Last week a customer brought me a Washburn acoustic guitar with narrow string spacing that he found difficult to play cleanly. He asked me to widen the string…

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