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Spalted beech rosette continued

Christopher 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 →

Tags: musical instruments, classical guitar, Tools, Techniques, guitars, Rosette, Soundboard, spalted beech, jig

Spalted beech rosette

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 →

Tags: classical guitar, guitars, musical instruments, Techniques, Tools, jig, Rosette, Soundboard, soundhole

Supersized Homemade Flying V Guitar

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 →

Tags: General Guitars, biggest guitar, flying v, giantc guitar, guitar shack, homemade guitar, largest guitar, long island guitar show, ralph ciociano

The Giant Portuguese Guitar

guitars101 wrote 1 week ago: Journeyman Pictures have made a great video about the Giantic Portuguese Guitar, Manufactured by a L … more →

Tags: General Guitars, biggest guitar, giant guitar, giantic guitar, huge guitar, Journeyman, Porto, Portugal, portuguse guitar

More on the V-joint1 comment

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 →

Tags: classical guitar, guitars, musical instruments, Techniques, Guitar, headstock, Panormo, V-joint

V-joints for guitar headstock

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 →

Tags: classical guitar, guitars, musical instruments, Techniques, Guitar, guitar neck joint, headstock, Panormo, V-joint

West Dean1 comment

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 →

Tags: guitars, Hardwoods, musical instruments, Woodworking, Rosette, spalted beech

Guitar Making and the Creative Process1 comment

John Dillon wrote 3 months ago: [Note: Before my present life as producer of the nationally syndicated Art of the Song Creativity Ra … more →

Tags: Creativity, leadership, Music, Guitar

Walnut guitar with cedar top3 comments

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 →

Tags: guitars, Hardwoods, musical instruments, classical guitar, headstock veneer, lattice bracing, Rosette, spalted beech, walnut

How Gibson Custom Shop Guitars Are Made

dolphinblog wrote 4 months ago: Check this fascinating account on how Gibson build their Custom guitars, with a setp-by-step descrip … more →

Tags: Electric Guitars, Gibson Guitars, Gibson News, Amazing photographs of Gibson Custom Shop factory, Complete Tour Of the Gibson Custom Shop factory inc. ph, Gibson, Gibson Custom Shop’s guitars, How Gibson Custom Shop Guitars Are Made, How Gibson Makes Their guitars

Gibson: custom guitar shop

jerry wrote 4 months ago: I came across an article on how Gibson makes their custom guitars – it’s amazing that s … more →

Tags: Interesting instruments, Music, luthier, Guitar, Gibson

Why don't girls play guitars?1 comment

Christopher Martyn wrote 5 months ago: A report from the UK last year complained that gender stereotyping influenced children’s choic … more →

Tags: classical guitar, guitars, Hardwoods, Music, musical instruments, Guitar Playing, Small guitar, walnut

Christoph Sembdner took his master craftsman´s diploma in guitar making& now his Classical Guitars are available @ Musicparts UK

pollardtrumpets wrote 6 months ago: Christoph Sembdner was born in 1970. After he had served his apprenticeship in guitar making in Mar … more →

Tags: News, Musicparts UK, Peter Pollard, Christoph Sembdner, Markneukirchen, SAXONIA, Germany, plucked instrument making, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau

Christoph Sembdner -master craftsman of plucked instrument making

brassman wrote 6 months ago: Christoph Sembdner was born in 1970. After he had served his apprenticeship in guitar making in Mar … more →

Tags: News, Hanika, Baiersdorf/Germany, Christoph Sembdner, concert guitar, diploma in guitar making, Dolphin Muisc, Germany, Jose L. Romanillos

Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar

Tony Hogan wrote 9 months ago: William Cumpiano Guitar Maker Cumpiano Acoustic Guitar About 15 years ago I became interested in Gui … more →

Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Makers, William Cumpiano, Build an Acoustic Guitar

Coolest Custom Made Guitars

guitars101 wrote 9 months ago: You can see too many custom designed products like furnitures, cars, jewellery etc. but it’s n … more →

Tags: General Guitars, Custom, CUSTOM GUITARS, custom made guitar, custom made guitars, designed, handmade, handmade guitars

Gibson Proudly Presents The Robot Guitar1 comment

guitars101 wrote 9 months ago: Everybody knows and loves Gibson. Gibson is a company that never loose the spirit of innovation and … more →

Tags: General Guitars, Gibson, Gibson Guitars, gibson robot guitar, Innovation, instrument, Invention, les paul, Robot

Some Helpful Tips for Buying an Electric Guitar

guitars101 wrote 10 months ago: Guitar Diagram A) Player: The most important element of a guitar is the player. Different peop … more →

Tags: General Guitars, Learn Electric Guitar, active bridge, amphlifiers, analog setups, Bolt on, BRIDGE, constant bridge, CUSTOM GUITARS

How does it sound?

Christopher Martyn wrote 11 months ago: So far in this blog, I’ve been writing about how instruments are made and showing photographs … more →

Tags: musical instruments, classical guitar, Music, Add new tag, Guitar Playing


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