Philosophy

After reading a fairly slow-read book and looking around online, I think I have a little better idea of ​​how a guitar works. It all starts with the string being snapped with the finger or the picking room. The string creates a whole compote of frequencies, a frequency recipe. The basic tone of the string plus a whole series of harmonics. The frequency recipe is filtered…

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GG 106

Made ready a guitar I recently bought at auction in Östersund. Had some ideas to test. It is a fairly ordinary vein-painted old pearl from about 1910. A little smaller, total length 92 cm and with a 626 mm mensur. Fairly narrow fretboard, 45 mm at the upper saddle and a comfortable V-shaped neck. A typical German with…

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A new jig

Needed to make the production of the composite stable leg faster and more efficient and made a jig for my saw box from Stewmac. The drawer has a small joystick that is used for ready-made templates to cut up fretboards to a handful of standard mensures. Have never used it as I never have standard mensur on the old boards that should…

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Larson

We want to warn sensitive collectors of weekend robberies. Never thought I would get a genuine Larson as an GammelGura item. A customer in the US had fallen in love with a regular GammelGura and wanted to make his Larson both playable and sound good. I basically got free hands. The Larson brothers were emigrants from Sweden…

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