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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

fitting neck heel

Binding and purfling ledges

gold mop seahorse inlay

True Blue headstock sketch

trimming neck set angle

gluing top to body

polished kingwood fingerrest

Pacific Sun seahorse

solid rosewood tailpiece

3 piece neck blank

Truss cap inlay

Moorish idols gold mop

1 piece maple neck

gluing neck reinforcements

gluing neck binding

solid bigleaf maple back

one piece maple neck

red maple back profile

machining blackwood tailpiece

polished inside, bigleaf maple

installing side dots

logo stamp

workshop

joining spruce top wedges

gold mother of pearl blanks

Sanding sides flush

african blackwood tailpiece

clamping 3 piece neck

red maple neck pieces

pernambuco fingerrest inlay

top glued to body

rough carving inside back

Deep Pacific fingerboard inlay

african blackwood finger-rest

gluing tone bars

Charlie Christian pickup

fan fret neck

Cobalt steel magnets, CC pickup

Truss rod cap inlay

shaping top profile

gluing neck extension

string ground, titanium tailgut

String grounds

Red Spruce Top Wedges

resawing adirondack spruce tops

binding & purfling routers

f hole binding & purflings

red maple back inside profile

Sunburst color coat

Boulder flatirons inlay

True Blue Red Maple Back

cutting f holes

red and paua abalone blanks

Charlie Christian pickup

cutting f holes

checking neck set angle

Deep Pacific inlays

bigleaf maple archback

bindings trimmed from sides

Deep Pacific mermaid inlay

gorgeous red maple

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