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It is an interesting looking body shape. You really don’t need a plan - you could make your own inspired by the photos you have seen. Get a good front-on photo of a KG-11 (the one in your post is not very square-to-camera, but there are plenty of others on the internet) and print it out to scale. Th...

Easiest choice, and a good one! Financial pain is usually of brief duration, while a repair that is not quite right keeps hurting you.

And, apparently, if you look at the screw in the end of the button (the one that holds it onto the shaft) - Schallers have a straight slot screw and both Ping and Gotoh have Phillips head screws. This is according to the very knowledgeable Todd Yates at UMGF: https://umgf.com/what-brand-tuners-are-t...

Gotoh, Ping and Schaller (M6) brands of closed tuners look very similar. I think those are Gotoh because the little tab for the screw is at an angle (Schaller and Ping are straight). If you want to be sure you could take one off and the manufacturer name is usually on the hidden face.

Historically, a lot of Martin guitars had ebony nuts, especially the 15 and 17 series (the all mahogany ones), but also some 18 series. Pre-war Gibson guitars and mandolins too.

It is good to hear this, and it is a new idea for me. When I have pore filled in the past I was always applying the filler to bare wood - and I have never got a result that I am 100% happy with. I will try this refinement to the method and see if I get a better outcome.

I have played with various grain fillers (epoxy, egg whites, Timbermate) and often decide that I actually prefer the aesthetic of open pores. I know that is not an opinion shared by all, and certainly not the guitar buying general public who seem to have largely adopted the view that musical instrum...

Lightweight open headstock with lots of carbon fibre reinforcement to strengthen it, and mini-Stealth tuners. Bolt-on heel-less neck (kind of like a Stratocaster) and CF rods inside to add resistance against string tension.

If you want to build a bouzouki style instrument get a copy of this book by Australian luthier Graham McDonald: http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com/bouzoukibook.html It is a great step-by-step guide to building a number of different styles and sizes, and includes really good plans. It also has enough inf...

Thanks Alan. I was hoping you might offer a perspective and even lived experience with this! What you have said makes good sense. It is a shame about the shipping coda to that story. Very disappointing to have your good work undone in that way!

Of course, softwoods are traditional for soundboards but hardwood tops of mahogany, koa or walnut are also seen fairly frequently. A couple of years ago Taylor released a solid maple topped model , which is the only example of a maple soundboard that I am aware of (apart from some maple veneer ply-t...

Fair comments - I should not have used the word bogus. Sloppy description. What I meant is that it does not seem to be a term that has widespread recognition, or consensus with regard to its meaning.

Mike Conner wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 7:05 pm Seems like I should know this, but I'm not sure precisely what double binding is. .

No, I don't think you should know this. I have not heard this term, and if Professor Carruth doesn't know it either then I think we have established that it is bogus terminology.

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 d...

Looks very good. I am sure the final effect with matching bindings and purfling and then under finish will be very classy!

Ladder braced guitars can sound great, with a tendency for more fundamentals and less complex overtones. A bit more of a bark. The best ladder braced guitars tend to be small bodied. It is not as strong as X-bracing, especially along the grain. To effectively brace a large soundboard like your jumbo...

Yep, having the wider saddle gives you options. But if you are going to optimize the result you want to determine the actual point, for each string separately, where the break point needs to be. In your other thread about bridge placement people offered advice about how to determine this. One way is...

Hi Eric That guitar looks really fine in the shot next to the Gibson. The top colour is especially nice. The wide saddle gives you lots of real estate to dial in the intonation. One comment - I think you could shape the back side of the saddle more, to slope it down towards the pin holes. Perhaps th...

Yes, I would agree with Bob that at this stage it you might as well just string it up and see how much of a problem you actually have - before you try to decide on the remedy. If it needs a remedy you could try to add some compensation at the nut. That could make you look very clever and prove that ...

You could adapt the concept of the “Guitarlift”, which is a Perspex plate that attaches by suction cups. It is primarily designed to be a rest for classical guitars that sits on your leg and holds the guitar in an elevated “classical” position. However, it also has the effect of holding it away from...