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Please tell us the full crazy request. OK, here’s part of it... I was thinking a carved archtop jazz guitar, but shaped more like a hollow body jazzmaster (with f holes). I want a loud 8 string ( "D" and "G" doubled) acoustic guitar that also is electric Hi Andy, So far it doesn't sound too wacky -...

"The cons would be for one that it's a one shot repair. You will never be able to get it off again, and might influence any future repair" Hi Mario, I think for me that might be the biggest argument against using it. If you want to do long thin continuous "cleats" the TJ Thompson technique might be ...

So often what we hear from professional repair people when presented with a basket case such as that Gibson is that it isn't economically feasible to rebuild it. The cost of repairs would be more than the guitar is worth. They can make more doing fretwork and set ups in the same amount of time it wo...

I had to go to the urban dictionary to find the proper definition of CRS disease....

Nice!
Jumbos have such a large canvas the burst helps bring them in a bit.

Hello Max, from one of the old geezers!
I'm surprised you took exception to his lutherie work. There were a few things I might have done differently, but he seemed to get it back together in reasonably good fashion, and to the level of the average 60 year old factory production guitar.

For sheet work work I used it to plunge cut cutouts for electrical boxes and light fixtures. Blades if bought from local big box stores can be somewhat expensive. Buying from eBay they are fairly cheap.
Another blade I've found useful is the scraper blade which I forgot to mention.

I have three of the HF oscillating tools. I caught them on sale so the single speed one was $14 and the variable speed ones were under $30. The single speed one worked O.K. and I've used it for construction work (plunge cutting drywall and thin plywood) and some guitar related stuff, but it does hav...

Nice looking instruments. The article you linked suggested that the vihuela was a Spanish creation to provide a more robust form of lute. I had never seen that before. That it had lute stringing and tuning is also interesting. It is somewhat surprising that the guitar developed from a different line...

Rodgers will make you a set for $850.
I modded mine from an $8 set of Chinese mandolin tuners. They aren't quite as nice. Here is a picture of them in the old original peghead I copied.

Actually I was speaking of me, Barry. My friend calls me the Hermit in the Hollow, because of my somewhat antisocial nature. I spent most of my "growing up" years alone in the woods, and the fields, and the marshes. I never made many social contacts, and still today, I am quite happy to "social dist...

P.S. The line of holes in the cover plate that run through the "medallion" I believe were for oiling the gears.
The donor guitar will be getting a new neck with tuners that can take the strain of steel strings.

Hi Karl, The enclosed tuners are somewhat traditional with that style of headstock. The original guitar I have has a plate on the back. Some used a plate on the front and some used tuners similar to "banjo" straight through friction tuners. The original tuners were made a little differently than mod...

This was the guitar I mentioned in Chuck Tweedy's post that originally sounded terrible. I guess it took a little while for the neck to wake up in a new body. It sounds quite nice now. It is kind of a crossover with a narrower nut width than a classical and a radiused fretboard. I used a "fan X" bra...

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I recently removed a neck from one guitar and transplanted it to another body. Originally it was on a body I had built for steel stringing, but the tuners I modified couldn't handle the tension. I mounted them similar to the originals - with the worms below the posts (which I know is poor practice)....

No big deal Max, One person's promotional is another person's informational. I learned something from your post - how you determine what you feel is the optimum bridge rotation. And welcome to the forum Max. Hope you continue to post here.We are generally a pretty friendly bunch, although at times w...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HB8MDlNqKo&feature=emb_rel_end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBzedxzy7I&feature=emb_logo The guitars have a nice mid-rangy blues box kind of sound. Yeah Barry, It is a bit promotional. He did say he was the marketing person for his Dad. I think he is being transpa...

When we speak of "X" bracing we don't give credit to C.F.Martin or his predecessors who developed it. Likewise we don't credit Torres and his predecessors who developed fan bracing when we say we are using it. I think saying "Falcate bracing" sufficiently identifies the source of inspiration and giv...