I Lost Three Guitar Backs In One Night
Three braced guitar backs cracked overnight while my hygrometer said 50%. The humidity where your wood sits can be very different from the number on the wall.
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The Two Battles Every Guitar Builder Fights
Every builder fights two battles. The first I can trace to a ceramic rooster in a 1993 drawing class. The second took me years to even see.
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Why Do Guitar Headstocks Break? (One Little Scratch Explains Everything)
A strip of maple veneer, one little scratch, and it breaks right there. That’s why headstocks break, and most of it isn’t bad luck.
Read MoreThe Guitar Is An Energy System (Not A Wooden Box)
The biggest shift in thirty years of building happened pushing a lawn mower: I stopped seeing a wooden box and started seeing an energy system.
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Guitar Truss Rod Guide: Types, How It Works & Adjustment
The guitar truss rod is one of the most important parts of any acoustic or electric guitar because...
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