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Repurposing my first guitar, was a spruce solid body that I hollowed out and put a top on it. It was better than I anticipated but fell short of a real acoustic which prompted me to go down the rabbit hole building a better guitar. This one was a flat top with an archtop bridge. I will have to make ...

Hi Fred I know it was a few months ago that you were posting about this - so maybe you have settled on a method and done it already. I made an acoustic with a bent-top arm bevel following the method of Mike Doolin, as he outlined here: http://www.doolinguitars.com/articles/armbevel/ I found that I ...

I am guessing this is laminated. https://buildingtheergonomicguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/Burrell-Guitars/Burrell-Acoustic-Guitar.jpg https://buildingtheergonomicguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/Burrell-Guitars/Burrell-Acoustic-Guitar-Side.jpg Not to be critical but just wondering how good this would ...

With the sensitivity, you probably would be best with a guitar that has NO contact with your arm. Just do a massive cutaway in the lower bout. I don't think it would take long for you to adjust to it. Probably would be a good idea for an electric, maybe not so much for an acoustic though. Maybe I w...

You could add an external arm rest with the necessary angle. Here is one I did for a guy who's body chemistry affected the finish. The arm rest is held on with magnets so it can easily be removed anytime. As much as I thought "This might not be for me." I can admit to myself that is my bi...

Hi Alan, thank you for your reply. Even with a wedge shape I end up with the major contact area of the guitar at the rim. I flipped over a Telecaster type of guitar (with Strat type of bevels and round-overs) that I built and pretended the strings were on the back of the guitar. Even at a 45 degree ...

I have an affliction which had me give up practising playing guitar a number of years ago and I thought my only musical involvement would be in making instruments. I had a nice Telecaster but where my arm rubbed against the edge of it I would start getting irritated and it would set off pain in the ...