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Handmade from the finest select woods and materials

Acoustic Archtop Guitars

by Southern California Luthier

Tad R. Brown

Workshop

Inside The Workshop

Cobalt steel magnets, CC pickup

True Blue Red Maple Back

logo stamp

cutting f holes

gluing neck extension

one piece maple neck

gorgeous red maple

checking neck set angle

cutting f holes

solid bigleaf maple back

Charlie Christian pickup

resawing adirondack spruce tops

red maple back profile

trimming neck set angle

shaping top profile

gold mop seahorse inlay

polished kingwood fingerrest

string ground, titanium tailgut

1 piece maple neck

pernambuco fingerrest inlay

solid rosewood tailpiece

Pacific Sun seahorse

gluing neck reinforcements

f hole binding & purflings

gluing top to body

String grounds

Truss rod cap inlay

Charlie Christian pickup

Boulder flatirons inlay

Deep Pacific fingerboard inlay

bigleaf maple archback

african blackwood tailpiece

Sanding sides flush

Red Spruce Top Wedges

polished inside, bigleaf maple

gluing tone bars

Moorish idols gold mop

binding & purfling routers

Deep Pacific inlays

Binding and purfling ledges

red and paua abalone blanks

top glued to body

workshop

Sunburst color coat

fan fret neck

rough carving inside back

bindings trimmed from sides

gold mother of pearl blanks

african blackwood finger-rest

installing side dots

gluing neck binding

red maple back inside profile

red maple neck pieces

joining spruce top wedges

clamping 3 piece neck

True Blue headstock sketch

Deep Pacific mermaid inlay

3 piece neck blank

Truss cap inlay

fitting neck heel

machining blackwood tailpiece

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