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Doc Rathwell replied to the discussion Non-Guitar Based Luthiery? in the forum Quick Questions a week ago
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I echo this entire suggestion. I spent the first 10-ish years of lutherie at the bench in a very high-end violin “firm”. All the big named historic makers passed through the shop. The clientele owning these are a unique group of individuals often difficult to work with.
The start of the next decade, I left the big city and the firm and took…
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James Roadman posted a new article . a week ago
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Awesome!!!! Great job Jamie!!!!- View 1 reply
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awesome!
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Yeah sure! I can do a video explaining it and upload it. I also did a blind test with some guitar players from Argentina to prove the results and do some conclusions.
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Nicole Alosinac – Nicole Alosinac Luthiery replied to the discussion Non-Guitar Based Luthiery? in the forum Quick Questions a week ago
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I primarily work on guitars, acoustic, electric as well as mandolins, banjos etc….AND, I also work on the violin family of instruments. I did study with a Master Luthier for the violin family restoration etc, but I find the clientele VERY different from guitars et al to violins.
In my experience I found violin clients knew less about…
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It depends on what type of compensation you are planning to use. For example, with the Buzz Feiten Tuning System they use a series of offsets for the open string tuning, and the 12th fret intonation for an overall sweetening of the tuning.
However, if you are not using offsets, you can capo the first fret, set intonation at the 13th, and then…
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Reply to Wiring help with unorthodox tele setup
It depends on how many pots/knobs you are interested in having… but if you kept to two pots, you could use a concentric stacked pot with a 250/500K, the first as a dual volume, and the second as a volume/master tone. I would wire the middle pickup to a kill switch and then to it’s own 250K volume, then directly to the output, and wire the…
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I’ve done this twice.
TBH I think it’s pretty silly. It’s really hard to get a precise idea of exactly where the string is in tune at any time, I don’t have a good strobe tuner but still, just getting a string perfectly in tune with itself I think is sort of a challenge. +-5 cents or so.
Anyway, I read the Gore book and the math is just…
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Alex Q Guitarworks posted an update a week ago
Gentleman,
Any reccomendation for a good resource on how to start producing its own pickups? I have some theory but of course I want to learn from the basics.
Thanks!
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