Fretwork & Setup: 3 days
Dovetails and Neck Joints: 2 Days
Dovetails and Neck Joints: 2 Days
This is what it pulls the whole instrument together for maximum tone, volume, and playability. You can build a great instrument, but without a fantastic professional grade setup, all you can do is speculate about the potential hiding inside; you can't bring it out 100%. Don't settle for less. We'll spend three days covering Nut, saddle, neck angle, a full refret, and as well as build a complete new fretboard off the body the same way way we do it for new builds. You'll leave here with skills, confidence, and a great setup guitar.
Dovetails and Neck Joints: 2 Days
Dovetails and Neck Joints: 2 Days
Dovetails and Neck Joints: 2 Days
Take the guess work and mystery out of neck joints and move to confident accurate, repeatable dovetails that come out correct on the first try with consistent methods and fixtures.
Binding Masterclass: 2 Days
Dovetails and Neck Joints: 2 Days
Binding Masterclass: 2 Days
Confidence, accuracy, and ease of installation: those are the qualities we all strive for in our binding work. Decades of experience will show you how to get great consistent results and take those skills back to your own workshop for all your personal instruments.
Steel String Voicing: 1 Day
Electric Guitar Necks: 3 days
Binding Masterclass: 2 Days
We will go from a rough braced top to a methodical plan for consistent great voicing on your guitars: power, frequency , tone, and headroom with repeatable results using simple hand tools and analyzing our vintage blueprint library of some of the finest vintage guitars made.
Top / Back Carving: 3 days
Electric Guitar Necks: 3 days
Electric Guitar Necks: 3 days
We'll joint a fine spruce top and glue it up with traditional hot hide glue, then we'll spend the next two days hand carving the archesd plated using traditional tools and methods. We'll aslo use my personal blueprint library of approximately 100 of the finest vintage instruments I've ever played & worked on fora unique in depth comparison and analysis among different models for a unique learning opprotunity.
Electric Guitar Necks: 3 days
Electric Guitar Necks: 3 days
Electric Guitar Necks: 3 days
A great introduction to building guitars: everything you need without any excess. You can bolt on to an existing body and play a few tunes before you leave or use it as step one for a complete build.
Bolt on electric Bodies : 2 Days
Bolt on electric Bodies : 2 Days
Bolt on electric Bodies : 2 Days
The classic slab bodies based on 1950s designs: everything you need in a simple, timeless package. This is a great introduction to guitar building and basic power tool use with vintage designs created on many of the same beautifully restored vintage machines that Leo used.
Set & thru neck Bodies: 3 days
Bolt on electric Bodies : 2 Days
Bolt on electric Bodies : 2 Days
Set neck and thru neck electric guitars with cutaways that melt away into the body. What more could you ask for?
Dovetail style necks: 2 days
Bolt on electric Bodies : 2 Days
Dovetail style necks: 2 days
The iconic dreadnought dovetail neck. Simple, precise, & an efficient design that has proven the test of time.
Rosettes: 1 day
Vintage Repair & Restoration
Sunburst Finishes: 1 Day
Take the guesswork out of the timeless rosette and learn the traditional techniques of making them very accurate and efficient using a combination of hand and simple power tools.
Sunburst Finishes: 1 Day
Vintage Repair & Restoration
Sunburst Finishes: 1 Day
Traditional hand rubbed and spray finish class taking your work to the next level, as featured on the cover of American Lutherie Magazine #125 and demonstrated at The Guid of American Luthier's Conventions.
Vintage Repair & Restoration
Vintage Repair & Restoration
Vintage Repair & Restoration
Period correct tools, period correct materials, and period correct adhesives to help maintain the originality and value of your prized vintage beauty. Call for more information specific to the individual instrument.
