Category Archives: Semi Hollow Guitars Hey all!! Here are 5 of the guitars that are now a wrap from the winter projects. Lots of bread and butter here- I get a lot of requests for the cello brown stain work and its always a great look. Mostly model 15’s, with one amber model 14 semi hollow in the mix. […]  Here’s a little guy, one of my Model 14 semi’s the last of the fall batch shipping out to it’s new owner today. I really like the sleek black satin vibe, VERY cool i would love to make more of these (and maybe own one too haha!)  Here’s the 2nd video in the series of some of the fall guitars! It’s new owner Chris!  So on this first really super cold winter day in NYC, I thought I’d post this Candy red Model 14 semi hollow we just finished up. So red you can almost warm your hands by the screen haha!! What a fun color to see this model guitar in, I could see Santa Claus rocking with […]  Ok! Here it is, my new thinline archtop! Ive been wanting to combine some of the stuff I do with my archtops as far as tone and woods, with ideas on how to break the price barrier for people and make it more affordable as a working guitar. This is what I’ve come up with. […]  All projects are going great! The spring batch of instruments are all assembled and painted for the most part. Only a couple more weeks until they start rolling out completed. As usual, while the paint is curing on one batch of instruments I start on the next batch of projects, so there are plenty of […]  Here’s another project I am cooking up. I’ve been seeing a huge trend in smaller guitars as the years pass. I get a lot of traveling / touring players who are in need of something lightweight and portable, but that can serve well as a jazz instrument with a big warm open and woody tone. […]  Lots of forward progress on all the current projects the last week or two! These shots show a lot of the body assembly stages, and how the compound neck mount angles on my guitars are braced up. This method is heavily influenced by classical guitar construction, and while it takes some precision set up work […]  It’s the first day of spring, and that is ALWAYS a good thing after a long winter in New York. Lots of great projects are taking shape in the shop. The first run of VB’s has started now that I am back to business as usual after my long project last year. Feels great, heres […]  SOLD It’s all done!! I have a very cool model 14 semi that I originally made as a “shop” demo guitar and it turned out a little too nice… I should probably “release it out into the wild” haha instead of keeping it. This is my 333rd guitar (3 is my lucky number), so this was a […]  Soooo…. I was going through some old boxes in storage and low and behold I came across some incomplete guitars!! These guitars date from mid 2000’s when I was in the Philly shop. I made some extra guitars along with various mini production runs at the time. I didnt have time to finish them out, […]  SOLD Here’s a cool guitar that I am excited about! My client Brian commissioned me to make a Les Paul size guitar (pics of that soon- its awesome!). The spalted maple I ordered came in a huge huge piece so I immediately decided to make an extra guitar from it. And here it is! It […]  Here are some shop shots of some preliminary work on the winter guitars! Lots going on- a 17″ archtop for my client Wooney in Seoul South Korea, a 14″ archtop for Jan Stauriale in Italy, another 14″ special edition archtop for Tyrone Lancaster in Las Vegas, a 14″ ultra-thinline chambered semi for Patrice Falco in […]  I’ll comment on this axe soon, but for now i’ll let the pictures do the talking. Curly redwood! WOW WOW and WOW!!! I’m making a couple of these guitars for inventory too! Check it out  Here’s a chambered model 14 that I just finished up for my client JK in Toronto. Great little guitar with a tiger eye stained spruce top. I’ll never get tired of seeing how the relatively plain looking Sitka spruce suddenly explodes with various figure and pattern when stained. The mahogany back and Spanish cedar neck […]  Heres a guitar that I originally built as an extra instrument for Patrick (my assistant in training) to work on. Pat’s story is coming soon, but in a nutshell its been many years since I’ve had a good assistant, and this young guy shows some promise. The first thing i concentrate on with assistants is […]  Moving right along! Various shop shots… lots of pics of how i calculate my high access neck joint. Complicated but worth it! Also check out the cool little mini floating block that Gilad asked me to develop!  I finished the majority of clear lacquer coats on the guitars about 2 weeks ago, and they are looking great. I started polishing the guitars earlier this week and decided that a couple more coats was in order. They will take a few more days to harden up again and i will get back to […]  All four of the guitars I’ve been working on came together quite well, and are all sanded out ready for paint. One guitar will be a tiger eye finish like this, two will be winebursts like this (initial ground stain shown here- more color work coming up), and the forth will be a dark green […]  Been doing TONS of work to the current projects. Moving along nicely! Hope to have assembly finished by the end of this week- then on to staining and finishing!  Neck work on guitars for my clients Noah M, Noah P, and Jon! This is the preliminary machining work. The blanks are roughed out very consistently and accurately on the cnc, and are ready for hand tweaking for the final feel.  More work on guitars for my clients Noah M, Noah P, and Jon! Mostly rim work, some plate laminating…  Gettin started on a few guitars for my clients Noah M, Noah P, and Jon. Trying to keep my Noah’s straight haha!! These guitars will be two 15″ guitars and a 14″ laminate. They all have customized specs and alterations that the guys picked out. Its going to be a blast getting these 3 together! […]  Update: This guitar is now sold… I decided to make a 14″ semi hollow for inventory using a super gorgeous bearclaw sitka top i had here at the shop. Its all done and it is SWEET! Pics first (better shots coming soon these are phone pics): This guitar is a FEATHERWEIGHT. It has a Spanish […] |
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