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