Earlier this year I had the chance to play a Gibson SG and I immediately found it to be the perfect size and shape for me. I don't play 6 string instruments much anymore, so I began thinking about how…

Now I will finish this project! The next step is to glue on a new laminate piece to match the one I removed. Here is a picture of the laminate being glued and clamped to the tailpiece.

Now it is…

The work begins! I started by removing the bridge pins and sanding off the top laminate. I then filled the two outer bridge pin holes with dowels.

Next, I used a chisel to slice off the tops of the dowels…

Recently a customer brought me his Mojo Daddy cigar box guitar because the lowest string kept sliding out of the groove in the saddle. As you can see in the following picture, the bridge pins on the tailpiece are much…

This is the new blog where you will be able to follow along with my various musical instrument projects. Some of them will be those I design and build for use in my performances, and others will be custom work…