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I would also replace base with a full footprint on the top. This spreads the load much better and reduces chance of top sagging or misalignment in future. Performance and functionality are more...
There are 3 ways to learn how play lines: transcribe, read, and work out the mechanics of the raw materials. 1. Transcribe. Like the others said, it's essential to transcribe some things to be...
I hate to recommend Cordoba but they do have 1 or 2 guitars of that size. Whether they fit in your budget is a different question. The closest you can probably get is a 7/8th size classical...
I picked up a piece I worked on a few years ago when it was barely playable for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcwebvHKZ2U It's from Mike's video course @MusicGurus called "Uptown Blues -...
This is a really timely post, thank OP! I have a '52 reissue Tele from '99 that I discovered sounded and felt fantastic for jazz. Yes, I know. Famous players have been making great jazz music...
There is a potential way to fix the sagging. Not complicated and possibly easy given you can get under the top to work with the pickup cavities open. It involves matching a curved brace under the top...
One of the more SFW stories from Miles’s autobiography “Bird never talked about music, except one time I heard him arguing with a classical musician friend of mine. He told the cat that you...
Well I'll be. Yeah -- never heard that one. Or if I heard it before, I wasn't listening :nightmare:
Apparently, just for some trivia, the C on the score doesn't stand for 'Common' time. It comes from medieval church music where 3/4 was considered the most religiously perfect time signature (tempus...
Decided to mess around with this one...tried to to bring back the sixth into my solo a bit.
If I had to choose one, then single coil. What I think would be cool: a single coil pickup right next to a humbucker, both in the "neck" position. I haven't found a HB pickup that works well when...
The cost of labor here in California is quite high. I expect luthier work to cost $100 an hour or more. And finding a luthier with the skill set to work on archtops is not easy. A vintage guitar...
The wavy grain on the top of that flatsawn bridge base ... with time you'd expect that to sag. Hopefully your person can find a nice quartersawn piece (or skew?). After that, it will be better than...
Round wounds instead of flats. Improperly fitted bridge. High action out of the box. Why is ebony in quotes? Do you believe it's not ebony or you don't like that it's dyed? What do you mean by...
I think folks forget this when recommending 1950's archtops to less experienced players. Vintage guitars sound great. But vintage issues don't map well to the current reality of online commerce...
So what kind of blues is this (or not?)
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