I’m pulling things together for a set of 3 new acoustic builds. Hopefully small, medium, and large (parlor, OM, and Jumbo). So I’ve been trying to pull the wood together without breaking the bank account. I picked up 4 sets of sitka spruce soundboards off Ebay for a very good price. Here they are stickered using the spruce bracing that […]

I finished repairs on the Guild guitar earlier this week.  First I added some internal bracing to the sides to help reinforce them. I used rare earth magnets for clamps. I had to pull the binding off around to the heel to give enough length to reattach the binding. This left a small gap right by the heel, but I […]

Last week after jamming with some friends one of them pulled out a case from the corner and asked if I’d take a look at something. What he pulled out was a pretty generic Guild dreadnought that had seen some better days. It was obviously played hard over the years (1999 on the date stamp). Severe grime on the fingerboard. […]

Somehow I’ve forgotten to do a final post for this guitar.  It has been complete for at least four months now and has become my daily player.  I installed a LR Baggs Pure Mini pickup and have been playing live from time to time at local open mic nights.  This guitar is a huge step up from my old Washburn. […]

The 4AM alarm was almost too much to handle.  The only reason for getting up so early is to climb a mountain either before the noon thunderstorms hit or the sun turns the snow into wet mashed potatoes.  But my carpool was picking me up at 5AM and still I needed to eat, tape my feet, load my gear, slather […]