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Man that looks nice John and the overall dark top, back, and sides look great together. Great job M8!!!

Congrats Taff - that looks like a fantastic machine!!!

Paul this may be helpful to you: http://www.heshtone.com/ Fall-away is when the fret board extension gradually distances itself at a greater rate from the strings over the gutiar body. I like to see about .010 - .020" of fall-away at the last fret on a dread sized guitar. Purpose of fall-away is to ...

simonm wrote: Any builder who does not have a fully tooled up workshop will save the price of the books in a a very short time simply by looking at the pictures of Erwin's very elegant jigs and building something similar. Good point and I completely agree. There were some things that I really wante...

Yeah well I was ALWAYS a fan of Ervin - no revisions needed here.... Very Happy But in all fairness I had talked to Ervin a couple of times prior and met Ervin and I KNEW him to be a cool dude! Now knowing what we know and issues aside for those of us who have experienced Ervin's books and understan...

Many thanks Ervin for selecting me to receive a copy of your DVD!

I'll be happy to post my comments after viewing and listening to the DVD and I will also use a pair of vintage Sennheiser 414 headphones.

Thanks again - You made my day!

Hi Ervin and thanks for that - one can now make sense of the two desperate efforts at promotion. Just a thought and not to rekindle any dispute but it seems to me that you agreed to be filmed for the purpose of a Gourmet Guitars episode (excellent DVDs, I have all of them) and not for a YouTube. Sou...

Dan I did some tests that may be helpful here.... In my experience too, like Nick's, fretting the board off the neck does indeed introduce some back bow. One of the experiments that I did some years back and I may be able to find my pics was to measure if pressing frets introduced less back bow than...

The last time I fretted a guitar it was done in very much the traditional manner meaning that the frets were not installed until after the guitar was finished and the neck was attached. This was the first time I ever did it this way and included pressing the frets onto the neck with the Stew-Mac Jaw...

Allen bro you could probably open up the sound even more by getting rid of some mass and carving every piece of the lattice bracing into a triangular cross section.....

Just kidding...

Outstanding work M8, very innovative and it's great to see the CF use here too.

Tim doing an apprenticeship if you can find that kind of an opportunity for yourself is invaluable, humbling, fun, not-so-fun, and will benefit you and your clients going forward. This is a craft where it's easy to breath one's own air so-to-speak and without real honest critique on every level from...

Start with what you know the most about i.e. if you primarily play an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar or a uke learn to build what you play. Why? Because at some point you will have to set up your instrument for the player and if you as a player of this sort of stringed instrument have prefere...

You would be surprised at how very many strings are defective right out of the package... Yes worn strings can impact intonation. Also the brand of strings can too - different strings intonate differently. Lastly intonation should be done/checked in the playing position, not just you but the guitar ...

Must be those sub-prime mortgages...





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For me since my 20's I had talked about and had a personal dream to build acoustic guitars after I retired. Mind you I had no clue, not that I do now either... how to build anything. Then in 2004 I found out that there were acoustic guitar "kits" and even better some of them, not all...., came with ...

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Something else that came to mind when rereading my prior post for speeeling errors is this: Do you folks ever wonder how when we are all long and gone one of our guitars will be considered by the repair folks that the then owner may take the guitars too? For example, 15 years from now how will a Gui...

Looks simple enough Allen but I am wondering how you account for the top of the saddle being moved aft with the shim method? Seems to me in my best Colombo voice.... Very Happy that the placement of the slot, when it's going to be angled, will have to be recalculated based on the tilt of the saddle ...

Hi Rick - don't get me wrong mate I agree with you. But I also want to throw out the following: We all know that bridges can split/crack and most of us have seen this happen on guitars too. Certainly you have Rick and probably much more so with your experience level than others. But don't you think ...

I don't do the following but some builders will not cut the saddle slot until the bridge is glued on and the slot position is determined with things now in place. I think that this is a great method too, certainly it has the potential to be as accurate or more accurate than positioning the bridge ba...

Super cool looking guitar Jeremy - very well done M8!!!

Hi Mike and thanks for that. All good points and no disagreement from me. I certainly do not contend that there are not indeed other materials that can produce sound in the context of being part of the structure of a guitar. I know of Joseph and know people who know him and he is very respected. Whe...

Not to high-jack the thread from the jerk who started it but having worked with lots of balsa for radio controlled aircraft it just seems to me to be a wood that might be a tone sink and not a tone transmitter.... It's very soft and the difference when using thin CA is very notable with balsa smokin...

Lillian wrote: Ooo I want one! Lillian that sounds kinky.... again.... Very Happy Sooooo... Anyone else have any interesting uses for CF in guitar making or anything else that you might do in your shops with the lights low? Smile Also - how are you gluing/laminating CF to the various woods that we ...