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Interesting fret leveling technique

New one on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZXT8RE_Xqg&t=2300 Anyone work like this? It's an 'interesting' idea.

Started by Keith Somerville in Luthier Talk

"Hum" when volume is turned down on my Gretsch?

First of all, Hi!  It's been a looong while since I last posted, but life is strange sometimes, and we have to roll with it.  Anyway, I'm g…

Started by John Cartwright in Luthier Talk

Tiple intonation

A customer just dropped off a nice T28 Martin tiple complaining about poor intonation. He says he heard that Frank had done an intonated sa…

Started by Terry Straker in Luthier Talk

String spacing at nut opinions

Hope all are doing well.  I recently was working on an acoustic guitar where the desire was to put a Gold Tone zero glide/fret nut in.  The…

Started by Greg Miller in Luthier Talk

Noobish Question... Truss rod tension before FB level?

I was just wondering how much tension should I put on the truss rod before leveling the fretboard? I'm thinking between 1/4 and 1/2 a turn.…

Started by Gert van der Does in Luthier Talk

Help Identifying an old Parlor Guitar, Larson-esque?

Hello everyone! Thanks for having me. This is my first post here; I had been given a good recommendation that you fine folks might be able…

Started by Aaron Jennings in Luthier Talk

tacoma acoustic bass guitar

Hello all,I have a Tacoma bass guitar in my shop. I took it on as a project because of how it was presented to me. When I brought it home a…

Started by Lee Gendvilas in Luthier Talk

A Vietnamese guitar factory

Started by Doug Berch in Luthier Talk

Your volute can't save you!

Started by Keith Somerville in Luthier Talk