A lot of guitarists and luthiers alike enjoy arguing about such things as to the importance of bridge pins used on a guitar and whether or not wooden pins contribute to the sound of a well built guitar.

Make Your Own Bone Nuts & Saddles Source: Tools & Materials Making Your Own Bone Nuts and Saddles: Years back, when by father started making and repairing guitars, he was too thrifty (i.e. cheap) to pay the high price of quality bleached bone nuts and saddles. After all, he bought all his own lumber to [...]

2-Part Epoxy Glues Source: Tools & Materials Believe it or not there are some definite tricks to gluing parts of the guitar correctly. If you get too much glue on your wood guitar parts, it will at a minimum, give you a messy cleanup chore and possibly a poorly glued or structurally insufficient joint. Glue [...]

Wood Dent Removal Source: Guitar Making Tips It WILL happen. You treated it with care for many hours of your time, just when you least expect it you put a dent in the $160.00 prize Adirondack top that you have had aging in your shop for 2 years. “How could this happen, when I was [...]

Woodslicer Bandsaw Blade from Highland Hardware. Give yourself a break and use this great bandsaw blade. If you decide to get serious about guitar building as a hobby or as a profession, at some point in time you will want to explore merits of resawing your own wood blanks. Now I’m not talking about logging [...]