Author archive for Tony
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Progress on Winter 2016 Acoustic Builds
By Tony on February 9, 201601In between work and play, I’ve been making good progress on a couple of acoustic guitars. One is an OM model for a friend. The other is a slightly larger Grand Symphony (GS) sized guitar. Both have Indian Rosewood back and sides, with Sitka spruce tops. Sitka bracing on both of them. I should have both boxes closed up this […] -
L-5 Multi-scale Archtop Complete!
I’m happy to say that last year’s big project is now complete! I don’t even want to speculate on how many hours went into this archtop guitar. In building this, I took a couple large leaps of faith. First was just taking on an archtop build. Carving the back and top to the gentle contours and variable thicknesses that both […]