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Handmade from the finest select woods and materials
Acoustic Archtop Guitars
by Master Luthier
Tad R. Brown
Workshop
Inside The Workshop
joining maple back wedges
traditional dovetail neck joint
gluing back to sides
stamping logo
bending venetian cutaway
carving and graduating top thickness
ready to bend
laying up neck with ebony strips
neck blanks cut from curly eastern red maple
carving inside back
fret slots clean
shaping back profile
gluing kerfed lining
bindings trimmed from sides
scraping down to final thickness
sanded and prepped for finish
chainsaw carving maple back
armstrong p-90 with high/low coil tap and low profile volume & tone controls
glued and clamped tight
ready for sealer
top glued to body
signature f hole binding & purfling
neat and clean
fret tangs trimmed
african blackwood finger-rest
precise neck to body fit
fingerboard trued and radiused
routing binding channels
tailpiece of solid african blackwood
solid rosewood finger-rest
traditional dovetail mortise & tenon neck joint
5 gram ultra-light bridge & saddle
planing neck thickness
routing dovetail mortise
planed smooth
strings grounded
gluing f-hole binding & purfling
shaping top profile
checking thickness
inside body of sound-box
micro ground lapis lazuli gemstone in nitrocellulose lacquer
clamped tight
routing f holes
body shape form
bound tight
blackwood tailpiece, buffed and polished
gluing endblocks
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