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I needed fenders on my bike. My options were to spend $40 at a local bike shop, or spend $25 online and have to wait a week for them to be delivered. Neither were acceptable. Took about an hour and a half from start to finish using scraps. I started by cutting out some cardboard templates...

My buddy thought it would be a good idea to challenge my woodworking skills by building an instrument (one I don't play but he does…). I am naive, so I agreed. I chose the use the Grizzly Telecaster kit. The body is made of ash. It has a maple neck. For less than $150, I was impressed with what...

A special guitar build required a special guitar travel case. The guitar I just recently finished has some extra electronics that will travel with it. I figured a custom travel case to keep everything together made sense. The case needs to hold the guitar, MIDI pedal board, power cord, and...

As a luthier I have traditionally stuck to building instruments, however I have wanted to build a guitar amp for a while. I thought the best place to start was with a woodworking project, since this is where my expertise is. I gutted a used Fender Blues Jr and built a new case to the same spec...

Here is my latest creation. My son requested a Strat to go with his other guitars I have built for him. What does a father do for his straight A student but comply. The electronics came out of a broken Stratocaster. The tuning pegs are actually a Tronical electronic mechanical tuner that...