Category Archives: News A slew of the spring projects have been completed and shipped out! Woooo lots of guitars this time around – and sadly not much time for the ol’ blog … but here’s a bunch of pics of what we’ve been doing! There are some Model 16 special editions, some Model 15’s (my favorite model I […]  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. […]  Hey guys, I am super pleased to unveil the next guitar I made for Gilad Hekselman! Woooo! Check out the video- we decided to make a carved version of his old Gibson Howard Roberts model  While the winter projects were being painted, drying and curing etc, we did a couple big weeks of early construction on the spring projects, here’s some pics! LOTS of cool stuff going on  So here’s another batch of various shots of the winter projects, things went great with the painting process and a bunch of the guitars are on and off the bench with various setup steps, including hardware installation, fretwork, tweaks etc. I’ll try and take more pics this week as we do the setups. Some of the […]  With the winter projects in various stages of the painting and curing process, we do our usual hopscotch into the roughing stages of the next batch of guitars. Here’s a big bunch of pics of guitars we have scheduled for the spring run, lots of KILLER guitars in the mix here including two special edition Model […]  Here’s a HUGE batch of various pics from the winter projects underway here at the shop! Guitars everywhere ahhhh!!! Guitar insanity!! haha  Here’s a quick post showing a bunch of great spruce sets I got from Brent at Alaska Specialty Woods. Some true clean master grade sets , some heavy bearclaw sets, as well as an assortment of some figured “funkier” sets that he knows I like getting for my semi hollow cores. These wider grain funky sets […]  The next episode of the video blog is up! I’m continuing with my latest Ergonomic Archtop project, its going great- lots of new pics of the process so far :-)!
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 Here’s the 2nd video in the series of some of the fall guitars! It’s new owner Chris!
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 Hey all! My new guitar shop video blog is here! Season 1 Episode 1 woohoo! I am really hit or miss on having time for my blogging unfortunately, but I really enjoy doing it so I’m giving it another crack with this format idea for 2017 I’ll let the video do the talking and there’s […]  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. […]  In addition to all the guitar shop projects, I’ve also been working on some of my music that I recorded this year. Here’s the first rough mix of my tune “Chasing the Rainbow”. I’m playing one of the guitars I made for Gilad Hekselman. I didnt own a guitar there for a while (haha… […]  SO stoked that the spring archtops are nearing the finish line. Lots of paint work happening on all the guitars, all looking great. Check it out the latest pics! Me and the crew have about another week of paint work before they are ready for setup. yessssss!  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 […]  I started planning out the summer run of instruments here at the shop, gathering specs and acquiring some needed materials etc (more on those guitars soon!), and I realized that we are going to hit serial No. 400 with this batch. I try to do some special features for every 50th guitar we do (100, […]  Here’s the first of two exciting new projects that is in the planning stages here at the jazz guitar laboratory. 😉 I’ve been working several years with my good friend Gilad Hekselman. He’s a super creative inspiring musician and even cooler guy, check out some of his music if you havent you’ll be glad you […]  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. […] |
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