I've learned a lot from other guitar builders over the years, and so this blog is a way for me to share my own build experiences and hopefully let others learn from my success and mistakes!
A Week in the Shop
A Week in the Shop
6 Mar 2023 - 3D-printing, älgen, birthday, laser-cutting, telecaster, templates
Rushed weeknotes for a rushed week: I make some progress on älgen, meet the real version of what it's named after, and spend far too long nursing a laser-cutter.
A Week Out the Shop
26 Feb 2023 - archtop, bhm, cad, delfin, fusion 360, rendering, templates, verkstaden
A week spent paying off some CAD debt to fuel the workshop time, and a look at another builder of some amazing archtop guitars.
A Week in the Shop
19 Feb 2023 - 3d printing, älgen, bhm, delfin, fretwork, memphis minnie
A shorter weeknotes this week, as I've been heads down on slow tasks: fretwork and 3D print iterations. I also learned about the person who wrote one of my favourite Led Zepplin songs back in 1929.
A Week in the Shop
12 Feb 2023 - 3D printing, älgen, bhm, blues deluxe, delfin, grant green, neck, orca, sanding
A bit of everything this week: more neck carving, inspirational jazz performers, 3D-printing with carbon-fibre, finding odd imperial sized screws, and having fun with obtuse seeming digital music tools.
A Week Out the Shop
4 Feb 2023 - 3d printing, bhm, blues deluxe, ef1, freecad, generative art, gibson, laser cutting, sister rosetta tharpe
I have some fun 3D printing a prototype of my new bridge design and fitting it to my daily player for testing, I start learning FreeCAD, and I spent some time listening to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the under-appreciated inventor of rock-and-roll.
A Week in the Shop
A Week in the Shop
22 Jan 2023 - delfin, fretting, kerf, laser cutting, neck, palm router, verkstaden
Getting back into the swing of things with making dust in the workshop: a neck gets prepped and fretted, and I try out my new ferrule block technique to learn that it needs improving.
Getting back to the Shop
16 Jan 2023 - älgen, delfin, jigs, laser cutting
Getting back into the workshop after a brief hiatus, and starting out with finding a great new way to radius my fretboards.
A Week in the Shop
1 Oct 2022 - 3d printing, älgen, delfin, sanding, templates
Lots of sanding and tidying on my Älgen guitar build as it gets ready for finishing, some last minute template redesigns, and I learn how to use a new 3D printed.