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Custom, hand-built guitars and mandolins, restoration, repair and consignment for collectors and Bluegrass and acoustic musicians by Chris Oliver in Springfield, Illinois.
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Category Archives: Guitar
Fabricating a Bone Nut
The mahogany guitar gets its nut cut and shaped. This processed cow bone gets sawed down into strips and one large enough gets shaped and fitted to the nut slot. The nut will get final shaping and slotting after the … Continue reading
Martin Restoration
A vintage Martin D-28 gets its old rosewood bridge (probably installed in the 70′s) removed. Also, the mahogany project gets its neck glued on. Dovetail joints take very few clamps to keep a tight joint during the glue-up.
Top Repair 3 and more…
The broken guitar gets its neck reset. The mahogany project gets its neck carved and fit.
More work completed.
We are still waiting for our newest shipment of river-recovered mahogany to be released at the port. In the mean time, we got a sunburst shot on the archtop restoration and have bound and been pore filling the mahogany project.
Honduras Mahogany Project 3
This is sapodilla. This is also old growth sinker lumber from Belize. We will be testing this lumber for back and side sets after the current Old Growth Honduras mahogany build is complete. It certainly has potential to be a … Continue reading