Some years ago a friend and colleague of mine offered me the membership in a special club: A workshop club with 80 members, equipped with professional tools for woodwork, metal work, bicycle repair shop, welding and more, accessible 24\/7 days!<\/p>\n
Although I’m not a friend of club life, I joined that workshop club directly.<\/p>\n
At the same time I came across Roberto Benedetto’s book about making archtop guitars. I owned several guitars already but never owned a Jazz guitar – so, I decided to build one.<\/p>\n
It was not the first guitar I built, as a teenager I followed some instruction found in\u00a0a youth almanac to build an electric guitar. At the age of 14, with no money, I convinced my father to support me and I could finish it – even building a pick-up, using brass model railway tracks as frets and so on.<\/p>\n
But! The body and neck was supposed to be made of simple core-board, which I followed, of course. What a crap! After setting up the guitar and playing some notes – which sounded quite OK, over an old tube radio – the neck started to bend. The action on the 12th fret was about 10mm and impossible to play. What a disappointment!<\/p>\n
Today, after 45 years, I’m still mad about the author of this building instruction.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, 5 years ago, I tried it again and finally built a working archtop guitar, with some glitches, but it gave me the feeling of being \u00a0able to do more. This is how it began…<\/p>\n
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Some years ago a friend and colleague of mine offered me the membership in a special club: A workshop club with 80 members, equipped with professional tools for woodwork, metal work, bicycle repair shop, welding and more, accessible 24\/7 days! Although I’m not a friend of club life, I joined that workshop club directly. At … Guitars!<\/span> weiterlesen