RESTRUNG – Documentary of Wyn Guitars
This is the Story of how Randell Wyn Fullmer went from being a Disney animator and producer, to building custom, one of a kind basses. Very inspiring for anyone remotely interested in luthiery, or even just trying to make a living in a creative field.
Gibson Government Series II Guitars
A couple years ago Gibson was raided for supposedly importing illegal woods for it’s guitars. There was a lot of theories about why this happened, and it certainly seemed like Gibson was singled out for more political, then ecological reasons. Well, the wood that was confiscated in those raids has been returned after Gibson paid […]
Duo-Sonic II Project
I haven’t posted any of the projects I’ve been working on for a while, but this one came out really well, so I thought I’d share it. I still haven’t worked my way up to building a guitar from scratch yet, but I have been slowly accumulating the tools and knowledge. This copy of a […]
Drilling a Guitar for String-Through Ferrules
I’m currently putting together a DuoSonic from parts and got to the point where I had to drill the holes in the body for the string-through ferrules. I remembered there was some kind of trick to make sure they all lined up nicely. If you just drill straight on through with an 1/8″ drill bit, […]
Thousands of Guitar Bodies and Necks for Sale …Cheap!
GuitarFetish, popular cut-rate guitar parts purveyor, is having a unique sale right now. Somehow they stumbled into a warehouse in China of abandoned guitar parts. No hardware is left, but there are thousands of necks and bodies in various states of finish and condition. A lot of the parts are in rough condition, but for the price […]