Guitarmaker Issue 92
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Front Cover
Jay Rosenblatt
Jay Rosenblatt’s Weissenborn guitar, in progress.
guitar, Hawaiian; guitar, Weissenborn
From the Director
Alton Acker
Teach your customers how to care for their instrument or plan to give them a lifetime of free maintenance.
Constructing a Weissenborn Lap Steel Guitar
Jay Rosenblatt
Rosenblatt takes us step by step in the construction of a fine koa lap steel guitar, including the making of authentic rope binding. With 55 photos (and 1 on the cover).
guitar, Hawaiian; guitar, Weissenborn
Vintage National Style O Neck Reset
Nate Clark
What is it like to work on a guitar that is half metal and half wood, fitted with shims, and held together with nails? Well, at least you don’t need steam to get the neck off. Clark gives a lot of detail about what it takes to do a neck reset on this National steel-body guitar. With 29 photos.
guitar, resophonic; repair
Kalamazoo Copper
Paul Chase
Nothing to do with the Michigan police force, but Chase turns an unidentified archtop into playable art by painting the body black and embellishing the headstock, pickguard, and bridge with copper. With 6 photos.
guitar, archtop
Understanding Phasing in Electric Guitar Repair
Roger Sadowsky
If you wire guitar pickups out of phase (get the wires reversed) you will get a weak, thin sound. Sadowsky shows a clever but simple way to determine phasing using nothing more than an analog (old-fashioned) ohm meter. With 3 photos and 2 diagrams.
repair; guitar, electric
The Neck Reset and the Wild West
Greg Voros
Voros wants to dispel the myth that a neck reset negatively impacts the sound of a guitar. With 4 photos.
repair; guitar, steel-string
Saving a Slotted-Head Guitar Neck
Alton Acker
Acker finishes making a slotted-head neck that he started 35 years ago. In the interim, a new jig from LMI came out, but using that jig on this neck produced an interesting surprise. Read about the surprise and how Acker dealt with it. With 19 photos.
guitar, nylon-string