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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!
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!
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
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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How low can you go?
A customer brought this Ibanez George Benson 10 for fret levelling and asked if I could lower the action at the same time. It was was already VERY…
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Testing Trevor Gore’s bracing
An Australian engineer turned luthier is stirring up the guitar-building world these days. Trevor Gore’s somewhat unconventional ideas have been rapidly adopted by boutique builders and a few…
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What’s On My Bench
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