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If you ever wanted to build an acoustic guitar or want to get some of the inside secrets to success with acoustic guitar building processes, like the tricky techniques involved in getting the perfect...

I think I read in Wikipedia that the bowed strings are tuned A B B A :D

Seriously it's an amazing looking insrtument. A modal tuning maybe ?

gratay, thanks for thumbs up on my modest building abilities, but from what I've seen in the short time I've been around I'm more than impressed, gobsmacked would be a better description. The quality...

I have every confidence that when I'm playing an acoustic guitar strung with medium strings, with a top under 86kg of tension, that things aren't going to end in disaster. At least they haven't in...

Mark, your idea for testing is simple but you'd need more than a brick to simulate the force. For an acoustic guitar you'd need to simulate the tension on the top for common string gauges .

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I'm using LMI's Instrument Makers Glue on Acoustics. It's a white polyvinyl glue that dries clear in 15 to 30 min. Claims made about it are that it is harder than Titebond and doesn't creep. It can...

From what I know about forward shifting or vintage bracing, Martin changed their X bracing pattern on both OM’s and Dreads around 1938. Before this period the centre of the X braces was 32mm from the...

Thanks fellas for the comments, much apperciated. Here's a pic of the bracing which is your typical Martin scalloped bracing. They need some shaping to get them to look like the blueprint. The sides...

Back in 2006 I built my first "HD-28 Martin" style kit Dreadnaught. I finished it with UBeaut Hard Shellac which gave me a great finish and being ultra thin I got a great sound....

old picker, what are you going to use minwax on ? Wouldn't be a guitar would it ?

I need to touch up an old guitar that has been finished in nitrocellulose. Could anyone put me onto a source where I could get n/c in spray packs /cans ?