Because I am an avid pedal steel player, make lots of solidbody electric lapsteels and resonator guitars,listen to mainly instrumental music, with real musicians, then, occassionally I get to make an acoustic lapsteel. These guitars just ooze sweet tone, and until you stop and listen to one, you won’t know what you’ve been missing. My [...]

Soundhole ring

There seems to be a little too much glue spread around here, but a couple of passes through the drum sander with 240 grit paper will level this ring nicely and remove the excess glue.I just love the wavy figure on this redwood top. It is time to cut out the soundhole with the [...]

We have been talking about acoustic guitar shapes and the variety there is. Now I am about to embark on drawing yet another guitar shape-that of a 4 string tenor .I have nothing to copy from this time, so I used my smallest parlour  guitar template, drew an outline from it and then downsized from [...]

                    During the last post, I talked about drawing acoustic guitar shapes.That involved freehand drawing of graceful curves.There is not too much measuring required, namely the lower bout, waist and upper bout. Check out the latest electric guitar shape that I drew from looking at a small picture. It won’t be an exact copy, but [...]

People may not be aware that there are more than two guitar types (acoustic and electric) that can be created but there are many different types of guitars. There are some very large differences in each and the following is an overview of the types of custom guitars that I regularly make for customers and [...]