Here’s the latest video, with the e mando coming together nicely!
Cheers Gary
Electric Mandolin Part 3
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Electric Mandolin Part 2
With the body completed (for the time being), the next job is the neck. And in the video I tell you all about it.
Rosewood/Engelmann Spruce 00 - More Photos
Here are some more photos of this 00 model guitar in East Indian rosewood and Engelmann spruce.
I expect to be in a position to pore-fill and apply lacquer top coats within the next couple of weeks. I'm very happy with the guitar up to this point, and I'm confident that finishing will present few challenges other than it being the usual long, drawn-out process!
Cheers, Pete
A New Model
With a lower bout width of 14.5", a 12th fret body join, and a 24.9" scale length, what else could I call this new model but a "00"?
With plans for an oil-finished neck, I've been able to install frets much sooner than would otherwise be the case; the headstock face and heel cap will be lacquered as usual.
Cheers
Pete
Electric Mandolin Part 1
I’ve just started building a new solid-body electric mandolin, haven't done one for awhile. I’ll be documenting the process in a series of YouTube videos. Here’s the first episode: hope you find it interesting.
Cheers Gary
Standard Mandolin XX now sold
This mandolin has now been sold, thanks for looking.
Cheers Gary.
Short Scale Bass Guitar
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Bass Guitar Build Pt9
Bass Guitar Build Pt8
In this video, the penultimate in the series, the bass gets the Karate Kid treatment and its various components re-fitted, ready for its final testing.
Cheers Gary
Bass Guitar Build Pt7
The neck’s done, so in this video the body shaping is completed and a few other bits sorted out!
Cheers Gary
Alexandru Marian Spanish Guitars
• chitaremarian
Cedar double top with black limba body
The second recent double top has an all-cedar soundboard with black limba back and sides. This is an interesting African wood, very light, rather similar to mahogany. The back and sides of this guitar are reinforced and stiff in a … Continue reading →
Alexandru Marian Spanish Guitars
• chitaremarian
Cedar / Madagascar double-top
In 2024 I have crossed to the dark side twice, meaning i built two double tops. Of course, maximum volume at any cost has never been my goal, so on both I did my best to boost the response of … Continue reading →
Bass Guitar Build Pt 6
With the fretboard/frets completed, the next stage is to shape the neck.
Cheers Gary
Bass Guitar Build Pt 5
Now is the time to prepare the fretboard (compound radius etc.), install the frets and dress them. This isn’t the most exciting stage of the build but of course frets are pretty essential to any fretted instrument!
Alexandru Marian Spanish Guitars
• chitaremarian
Build thread for guitar no. 90
Very excited to have started my guitar no. 90. Coincidentally I am building it for a very close friend, who happens to have also commissioned my guitar no. 2 in 2008. The soundboard is 12 years old spruce from the … Continue reading →
Bass Guitar Build Pt 4
With the first stages of work completed on the body and neck, they can be joined together and fretboard fitted
Bass Build Pt 3
I'm now on to the neck!
Thanks for looking, Gary
Fret Science
• Keith
Three robust shortcuts that can save you years
The conventional wisdom is that there are no shortcuts to becoming a good musician. On guitar, that is patently false. In this video, I share three…
Workshop notes
Continuing on from last update, these “weeknotes” (ahem) follow the new neck I’m building for the second guitar I built. When I started writing about this neck in my notes here I couldn’t say what it was for, as it was a surprise present for my brother, who is the owner of t...
Alexandru Marian Spanish Guitars
• chitaremarian
Spruce/Madagascar Hauser hommage
A recent delivery from last years build batch. Special quality Austrian spruce and Madagascar rosewood. Hauser hommage soundboard but with elevated neck and armrest. Audio sample from an early polishing phase. No reverb/enhancements etc, purely the dry sound from the … Continue reading →