From the bench
Design notes.
The questions behind the instrument. Materials, construction, and the reasons for making something of our own.
Originality
The Desert Island Test
On copying somebody else’s design.
Construction
What the joint actually changes
Bolt-on, set-neck, and neck-through.
Hardware
The case for more bridge mass
What a bridge does, and what mass contributes.
Engineering
Electric guitar coupling
The connection between string, bridge, neck joint, and body.
Read the thinking. See the work.
An instrument
with its own answers.
The ideas become useful when they become something you can play.
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