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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

Charlie Christian pickup

cutting f holes

Red Spruce Top Wedges

Binding and purfling ledges

one piece maple neck

fitting neck heel

solid bigleaf maple back

polished kingwood fingerrest

pernambuco fingerrest inlay

Deep Pacific fingerboard inlay

Truss cap inlay

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bigleaf maple archback

gorgeous red maple

1 piece maple neck

machining blackwood tailpiece

solid rosewood tailpiece

3 piece neck blank

f hole binding & purflings

gluing top to body

Deep Pacific mermaid inlay

binding & purfling routers

rough carving inside back

Truss rod cap inlay

african blackwood finger-rest

Moorish idols gold mop

gluing neck binding

resawing adirondack spruce tops

red maple neck pieces

bindings trimmed from sides

String grounds

joining spruce top wedges

checking neck set angle

gluing tone bars

Deep Pacific inlays

gold mother of pearl blanks

african blackwood tailpiece

installing side dots

True Blue Red Maple Back

Charlie Christian pickup

fan fret neck

gluing neck extension

Boulder flatirons inlay

Cobalt steel magnets, CC pickup

cutting f holes

red and paua abalone blanks

gluing neck reinforcements

gold mop seahorse inlay

Sanding sides flush

top glued to body

Pacific Sun seahorse

red maple back profile

Sunburst color coat

shaping top profile

polished inside, bigleaf maple

True Blue headstock sketch

clamping 3 piece neck

logo stamp

trimming neck set angle

red maple back inside profile

string ground, titanium tailgut

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