Earlier this week, I was contacted by Serhat Köse from Ankara, Turkey. He had spotted a steel string guitar, which he thought had been made by me, for sale on the mobile classified app Letgo�...
https://finelystrung.com/2018/01/05/fraudulent-use-of-my-guitar-label/
This guitar, a Recording King Tricone Resonator, came into the workshop with a problem. It’s owner, guitar virtuoso Roland Chadwick, wanted to use an open C# tuning (C#,G#, C#, F, G#, C#) ...
It’s always a pleasure to hear what one’s instruments are doing and I recently caught up with this small steel-string guitar that I made nearly 5 years ago for Poppy Smallwood. Based on a Mar...
Most vices won’t let you file a nut or saddle to shape. Their jaws are too wide and get in the way. Stew Mac make a special vice with tall narrow jaws to get around the problem. I haven’t tri...
https://finelystrung.com/2017/08/07/more-about-nuts-and-saddles/
Stewart-MacDonald has been sending me emails recently about a device which allows guitar makers to adjust the height of a guitar nut or saddle while keeping the underside both square and straigh...
This charming little guitar came into the workshop recently. The tightly arched back had come away from the linings in a couple of places at the edges of the upper bout and needed re-gluing. I al...
It’s easy to understand why professional guitar players choose to play large powerful instruments. They need to be confident that they can fill a concert hall with sound. But why do amateur pla...
Steel string guitars often carry scratch plates or rather anti-scratch plates to protect the soundboard being damaged by vigorous strumming. These plates are usually made of plastic sheet. Althou...
https://finelystrung.com/2016/04/13/scratch-plates-and-scratch-pads/
Several years ago, a friend who lives in an old farmhouse in rural Oxfordshire asked me to make a table to go in her sitting room. We agreed that something in English Oak in an Arts and Craft...
In the 1930s, the Head of the School of Furniture at the Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts, Mr A Gregory, wrote two books about woodworking: The Art of Woodworking and Furniture Making, an...