Several reasons for a name change. Guitar Designs is officially being used by someone else and McCloud Designs is an engineering firm in the East.
When the shop area in the Lincoln City Cultural Center became available, it was referred to as a "hole-in-the-wall" space.
Knothole sounded better since the knothole is the beginning of the branch of a tree. The Knothole Lutherie Shop is only the beginning of many different instruments and other artful objects.
Enjoy!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
New shop?
Would you believe this may be my new luthier shop downstairs in the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Needs work!
Repair
Broken head with new blank almost ready to glue. After gluing, blank will have to have head-plate and veneer attached, shaped, slots cut and string ramps formed.
Broken head and what it looks like after repair.Monday, July 20, 2009
Made for music
Dave Gauthier playing one of my intruments at a recent guitar building workshop at Sitka Center. The master at work!
Using the square to make sure the head angle is at 90 degrees.
Still squaring the angle. Shown are some of the future necks already cut and glued and ready for squaring.
Head angle being glued
A new use for those fake credit cards you get in the mail. (the blue thing in the center) This one is being used to shim the neck stock so it is perfectly 90 degrees to the bench. Saturday, June 27, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Custom electric
Electric with figured bubinga top over mahogony body, thru-the-body maple neck with ebony fingerboard and Fender Lace dual pickup with single coil switch.
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