Check out our new sign on the front of the building!!! Fabulous, if I may say so myself. Thanks Carole!!!!
NEW STUFF ON: 03/09/08 Well, I have been completely lame in keeping the current production section up to date. My apologies. At this point most of the boxes are finished as are the necks. Necks are in about 9 of the guitars, bridges are on and and 5 have been strung up. So progress is happening. I have put up a bunch of photos but not all that comprehensive. Check them out in the Current Production section.
I have added a new page with some thoughts on ergonomics and how that influences guitar design. Look HERE.
RECENT ADDITIONS BY CATEGORY:
A page of instructions on shipping a guitar.
Some thoughts on the effects of humidity.
A NEW MODEL: Check out the new OO model.
Visit the section on my current production. There is a intro page, a section with general or generic photos (which has five individual pages) and individual pages for each guitar in the current batch. This is not intended to replace the sections on my construction techniques, but is simply a way for those who can't get in every week to "visit" their guitar as it is being built. Many of the photos are "generic" and appear on the general current additions pages.
Gallery Page: This page has a variety of odd things on it. Check out page 3.
Just some editing going on here.
I am starting to replace some of the older photos in this section. The digital camera I now use works much better than scanning prints. I am also using larger photos for clarity and using thumbnails so that the pages do not load too slowly.
The Step by Step section (about 7 pages long) is an attempt to break down my building process into discrete steps (about 250 of them) with a description for each one. Look Here. There are 7 such pages right now. The step by step is done and largely edited. Links to the proper pages of the guitar construction pages are being added.
Charlie plays the #1,000,000 Martin, HERE and HERE.
For aficionados of this unusual (but very cool) instrument, there is a section on my building process and the completed harp guitars.
Some new photos of Kevin Schwab's 100th mandolin are here. There is also a new model - the Michael Lampert model - check it out here.
There is a new grandchild as of January 13, 2001. New Photos to join those of the rest of the family, HERE and HERE. New photos 5/1/06.
This site is getting quite large - there are well over 130 separate pages with more than 1000 photos - most of which have accompanying text. For help in navigating, use the bars at the top and bottom of each page and, particularly, use the site map (which is really just an Index).
New photos of the grandchildren 5/1/06.
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