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Jun
25

XXV anniversary Model – Introduction

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One guitar after the other, it feels like i’ve been at it for months; a few years, maybe… But the cold and dry calendar tells me i’ve actually past 25 years from my first guitar! To give myself some pause and break the routine, i designed and completed an...
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Oct
05

CAD

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Tags : analysis, CAD, design, development, guitar, guitar design, guitar parts, guitarmaking, parts, render, technology, tools
As with many other technological developments, the advent of the PC offers the guitarmaker new and useful tools. It might seem odd to define the PC a ‘new’ technology, yet it has to be considered in the perspective of our profession. We normally work like any maker...
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Jan
30

1, 2, 3… 400

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Tags : complicated, design, mosaic, rosette, technique
Now make it! After finalizing the desing as shown here, it is time to build it into an actual rosette. For each column of the mosaic tile (20 in this case), a stack of veneers of the correct colors has to be glued; for this design it means 20 layers. Totalling 400 veneer strips!...
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Apr
30

Design It

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Tags : colors, design, glass, grid, guitar, mosaic, rosette, tile
The hard part now begins! After deciding the design to include in the rosette (here), it is now time to find a design that both preserves the original it makes reference to and is compatible with the techniques and design language of the rosette. Instead of trying to translate it...
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Apr
06

Creative Input

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Tags : Creative, design, Palau de la musica catalana, project, rosette
Since my early days in luthery school and later as an apprentice in guitarmaking shops, one of the dreaded events was ‘creative input’ from customers. To succesfully design a coherent instrument requires years of study, practice and refinement, so what a customer...
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Feb
14

Marquetry!

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Tags : marquetry, parts, purflings
Different project, different design   Marquetry purflings   Not much yet to be seen, but recently i started a different that usual project and these are some of the marquetry parts that will go in it. It’s just a small part of a more complicated process, one...
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Mar
08

A good reason…

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to be quiet on the website! Our second daughter, Flor, was born about a month ago; we’re delighted but overwhelmed. Time is scarce, sleep does not abound and work in the shop must go on!
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Nov
30

In depth vacuum techniques – Gluing

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After presenting a few applications i use vacuum for HERE, specifically for holding parts, now it’s time to see some vacuum gluing applications. The basic setup is pretty simple: a bag of a suitable plastic material, in which you insert the parts to be glued or laminated,...
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Nov
11

Setup – Things that make good guitars

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At the beginning of a luthier’s carreer one starts to obsess over how to make that special instrument and where the secrets are: is that bracing the best one, are thinner sides better or worse, will a heavy neck improve a guitar or a light one will? Many more of these...
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  • XXV anniversary Model – Introduction June 25, 2022
  • CAD October 5, 2021
  • 1, 2, 3… 400 January 30, 2021
  • Design It April 30, 2016
  • Creative Input April 6, 2016

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