One of two GammelGura that were made during a week together with Farre. This nice Levin parlor guitar was finished and had to go home. No pictures were taken by me, but here are pictures taken by Farre. It is a finer model of the usual parlor format, a little wider rim than the cheapest. …
There are guitars and there are guitars. We have nylon string acoustic guitars, steel string acoustic guitars, acoustic jazz guitars, acoustic resonator guitars and electric guitars. I have arranged them according to what volume the strings can give the instrument. The physical laws are of course the same for all guitars, but I have noticed that the more volume there is available, the harder…
Per Marklund, eminent builder of fantastic 1930s Martin copies, has acquired a new professional CNC machine. He helped me program and manufacture a number of counter bars for the covers and the bottom ribs, three different radii. Have tested them and they work very well. Thanks Per!
Gone by the sex a place, it became a Swedish guitar but not a Levin. There are no stamps on it, but all indications are that it is a Gerdin guitar. The year is uncertain, but about 1910-1915 I would guess. The very special attachment with a straight “dove tail” and some others as details like…
Added a new method that describes two jigs, one to glue the bottom and the other to glue the neck 🙂
A faithful servant in the silence of the room are my shelves with a glued strip of sandpaper. I buy self-adhesive sandpaper for surface sanding, they are used several times every day. I have two shelves in a holder under the workbench and when needed it takes 10 seconds for a half bend and a clamp and then is…
Wrote a bit about the variant of "ladder bracing" I have as standard in my GammelGura, can be found under the menu option "Methods".
A week of really hard work in the room gave results. Farre brought with him a finished GammelGura in the form of a Levin from 1906. Levinen sounds very good, both Farre and I think 🙂 The old European lady from around 1900 with violin screws is almost ready too, there remains a saddle and stable legs and a little fix on…
This week I have an apprentice in the room. We're going to take on two old parlor guitars and if we work hard and properly they'll be ready before he leaves, but I suspect that varnish must dry on at least one of them 🙂
Is very happy with the latest GammelGura'n. Unlike some other objects, this one went like the train, no major problems on the road. I also think that the overside tuning and the composite stable have "landed", have found good ways to work and have acquired some new and better tools to facilitate the work. The jigs for banding and neck gluing…
