Current batch, GG199-203

All lids have had their ribs glued and adjusted. For the lids, I use my collapsible go-bar and a base plate with the same radius as the underside of the ribs. Since I am gluing several large plates in the lid, they need to be glued to a surface that is curved in two dimensions, the bottom ribs, on the other hand, can be glued to a one-dimensional support with the same...

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Current batch, GG199-203

All the guitars in the current batch have had their cracks repaired (there were quite a few!). The bottoms have new ribs, the necks carbon fiber rods. All ribs and stall plates have been selected and cut, the ribs have been given the correct radius and triangulated. Unusually, I didn't have to thin either the lid or the bottom of any of the instruments as all...

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T-frets

Got curious about exactly when the modern T frets were invented after working on strapping a neck with bare frets. After some Googling, I found the first patent of T-shaped bands by John F. Stratton, US Pat. no. 501,743, dated July 18, 1893. Patents are not always taken by the original inventors or…

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