This is the second half of the story, started in my last post, about making a rosette from spalted beech. The next step was to cut the channels around the edge of the rosette to receive the border str… more →
Finely StrungChristopher Martyn wrote 1 week ago: This is the second half of the story, started in my last post, about making a rosette from spalted b … more →
Christopher Martyn wrote 1 week ago: A few weeks ago, I bought a block of spalted beech from Mark Bennett and mentioned, in a previous po … more →
guitars101 wrote 1 week ago: I have seen too many Homemade Guitars many times but this one is a little bit different. This is the … more →
guitars101 wrote 1 week ago: Journeyman Pictures have made a great video about the Giantic Portuguese Guitar, Manufactured by a L … more →
Christopher Martyn wrote 1 month ago: Looking around for more on V-joints, I found Gary Demos’ site where he describes not only the … more →
Christopher Martyn wrote 1 month ago: Following on from my recent experiment with a small guitar, I’ve been thinking about going a s … more →
Christopher Martyn wrote 1 month ago: Classic Hand Tools held a show at West Dean last weekend. It wasn’t a big event but I’m … more →
John Dillon wrote 3 months ago: [Note: Before my present life as producer of the nationally syndicated Art of the Song Creativity Ra … more →
Christopher Martyn wrote 3 months ago: A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had started making a classical guitar with slightly smaller dime … more →
dolphinblog wrote 4 months ago: Check this fascinating account on how Gibson build their Custom guitars, with a setp-by-step descrip … more →
jerry wrote 4 months ago: I came across an article on how Gibson makes their custom guitars – it’s amazing that s … more →
Christopher Martyn wrote 5 months ago: A report from the UK last year complained that gender stereotyping influenced children’s choic … more →
pollardtrumpets wrote 6 months ago: Christoph Sembdner was born in 1970. After he had served his apprenticeship in guitar making in Mar … more →
brassman wrote 6 months ago: Christoph Sembdner was born in 1970. After he had served his apprenticeship in guitar making in Mar … more →
Tony Hogan wrote 9 months ago: William Cumpiano Guitar Maker Cumpiano Acoustic Guitar About 15 years ago I became interested in Gui … more →
guitars101 wrote 9 months ago: You can see too many custom designed products like furnitures, cars, jewellery etc. but it’s n … more →
guitars101 wrote 9 months ago: Everybody knows and loves Gibson. Gibson is a company that never loose the spirit of innovation and … more →
guitars101 wrote 10 months ago: Guitar Diagram A) Player: The most important element of a guitar is the player. Different peop … more →
Christopher Martyn wrote 11 months ago: So far in this blog, I’ve been writing about how instruments are made and showing photographs … more →