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That sounds like the Overholtzer book? He wrote the first book on guitar building that we used in the 70’s.

It’s pretty easy to ‘ebonize’ any wood. Black is easy to recreate. In fact, Martin dyes their ebony even on their high end models. I’m sure other makers do as well. I like ebony with streaks in it, so I don’t usually dye my ebony. I have ebonized rosewood and other wood fingerboards though...

Here is an example of one of my early 4trk recordings. This was on a TEAC 3340S reel to reel, mixed to a cassette deck. I didn’t have a mixer so I plugged the mics directly into the tape deck. For mixdown I had the little switch box that had 4 into 2 with (4) 3 position switches that gave you L...

Rosewood is not inferior wood to ebony.

The table with the roof is called a ‘Go-Bar’ deck and the sticks are called ‘Go-Bar Sticks’. The table is flat and the sticks hold the bracing down while the glue dries. These sticks allow you to glue in a bunch of bracing at once. This method also lets me flatten out a warped top. The Go-Bar...

A Les Paul special or Jr with an ebony board is just wrong. These were the entry level models and ebony is just used on the premium models. It’s not even used on a LP standard. They use ebony only on the LP Custom.

I always thought that was the case too, but I’ve since heard that it’s just the cassette tape and it was all done in the machine. I’m not sure which is true?…,but it’s probably somewhere in between.

I own a 65 335 and a 68 330. I play the 330 and the 335 sits in its case. I think the 330 is a much better guitar.

No ES345 or ES355? What would BB or Keith play? I basically agree. Three variants of each basic design should be the goal.

I’m not you, but I need 2 of them. If I could only have one mic it would be the original SM7.

The SM7 is a desert island mic for me.

Both companies make way too many variations of each basic model IMO.

Gibson has everything from some of the worst shit ever made to some of the best. Their golden age for great acoustic guitars spans from 1920-1960. Electrics are great before 1960, but after 1960 they vary a lot between crap and great. They set the bar for iconic instruments, but that doesn’t...

Why? Do you have a decent outboard preamp with at least 65db of gain? If so, you might not need to spend the extra $100.

GOP’s was a weird reinterpretation of the word ‘for’ caused by my fat fingers and dumb predictive text. The 335 is a 1965 year model. It’s the first year with a trapeze tailpiece. The Texan is a 1964 with a ceramic saddle which makes it the ultimate Beatle sounding acoustic.

They will fit as soon as I cut a notch in the side of the brace that will allow the tabs on the bottom for the pickup to pass through.

We’re fucked

It’s over the top. I even made a mink lined tooled leather case for it. This guitar took over 400 hours and I made about $5 per hr building it.

This is the most expensive and fanciest guitar I ever built. It recently sold in Tokyo for around $70k. I only wish I could have gotten that much for building it. Travis Tritt used this guitar in the video for his first hit song “country club”.