Why I Put The Same Strings On Every Guitar
I put the same strings on every guitar I build, the way a studio uses the same monitors. I need to hear the guitar, not the strings.
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Author: Tom Bills
Should You Level Frets Straight, or With Relief?
A shop in Italy put my guitar on their PLEK machine and it came back needing nothing. What decides that isn’t the leveling. It’s the shape of the neck’s bow.
Read MoreIs Wood Dust Dangerous in a Small Shop?
For twenty years I told myself a one-man shop didn’t make enough dust to worry about. One line of research took that story apart.
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Dust Collection – The Ultimate Luthier’s Guide
In this guide, we will look at dust collection as a system. We’ll then discuss each individual component of the system and how it can help
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The Room Inside the Guitar
Yesterday I was carving the top of an archtop guitar I’ve been working on, and somewhere in...
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