Better order for strapping on the grip bed I flipped through the latest American Lutherie without finding much of interest. But I got hooked on a little interesting tip. Harry Fleishman described a different order of attaching the frets to the fingerboard, not in the natural order from frets 1 to 18, but more like the nuts on a ...

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Most of the time the guitars I restore are taken apart as part of a GammelGura restoration. But sometimes I have to work through the sound hole during regular repairs, the problem is usually that the ribs inside are cracked or loosened at the ends. The solution is simple, insert glue and clamp the bar against the lid or bottom until the glue hardens. Simple,…

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