Two New Guitars.

Friday, great day! we put strings on two guitars in one day. Claudi with his Overcaster! And Marc with a sweet LesPaul junior. Both guitars play great. Also Garci strung up his LP double cutaway T.V style on Thursday

, with Bigsby! The hardest part is taking them apart again to sand and paint.

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Getting everything adjusted to the old neck is a nightmare! Trying not to touch the old varnish on the sides of the neck. So far, O.K. Next leveling and fretting. Ready with frets cleaned, barbs narrowed, bent to over-radius. And fretted!

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A new fingerboard for a 66 tele. Old one very worn out, and the owner wants maple. I bent a fingerboard over a 7 1/4 radius, hot water and a week in the sun did a nice job. Planed off the rosewood board, and glued on the new curved board. Drove me crazy getting everything to close nicely over the curve, but finally worked out nicely.

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We have found that the sound of our flamenco guitars is improved by acupuncture.

HaHa! Really this is the first step in doing a pearl segment binding to match the rosette.

This was inspired by an old guitar that I had in the shop for restoration awhile ago.

Pickup HB90

A friend needs a nice single coil pickup that he can fit in a humbucker rout. Here's how I did it. Actually there exits this, but I wanted to do it myself. First I trimmed off the bottom of a P90 bobbin, Made it about 3\32 wider, shortened it to HB size, then glued a new back plate of hardwood. Using the top holes of the bobbin as a guide, re-drilled for the screws. I used the bottom spacer to line up the holes for the HB frame. Then I wound the bobbin with 0.06mm wire(about 42 gauge. Got it up to about 7.6K about the same as a Tele bridge PU.After winding, I assembled the bobbin, magnets and screws,cut down a soapbar cover to fit inside the open top cover.  

Everybody!

Can't leave anyone hanging. Luis has finished his jazz bass. Hard to believe that it was all made in our shop.. Carlos doing a tele, and more. Very tired, I spend alot of hours here.

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Mickey is adicted to archtops. Coming along a Es 175. Quilted maple body, spruce top. Have good feelings about this one, but have to admit that these projects are a little advanced for first time builders. Also Claudio with his tele. Sergi building a flamenca, and more. Lot's of projects these days.Manu has finished his LP double cut. I love this guitar. I'm going to copy the form for other students.So many great guitars!!!!