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25.01.2022 WHY YOU SHOULD SHELLAC YOUR WEISSENBORN GUITAR When I began to build my Queensland Maple Weissenborn guitar I almost immediately began to think about what kind of finish it was going to have. To be perfectly honest I really had decided right from the start that it was to be a Shellac or "French Polish " finish. The maple was extremely tough and very lightweight with a beautiful flame finish and there was no way I was even going to contemplate drowning it in a thick heavy man-...Continue reading
22.01.2022 BUILDING A WEISSENBORN PART ONE For those amongst us who play guitar and are fairly adept with their hands, the thought of building your own guitar must have crossed your mind at some point.....go on, you know it's true! Probably, like me you shrank back from the very thought of having to work to the peak of perfection to a standard that you never dreamed you could achieve. But there are a few secrets, and the best one I reckon is that each stage of the build must be approac...Continue reading
20.01.2022 BUILDING A WEISSENBORN PART TWO For those amongst us who play guitar and are fairly adept with their hands, the thought of building your own guitar must have crossed your mind at some point.....go on, you know it's true! Probably, like me you shrank back from the very thought of having to work to the peak of perfection to a standard that you never dreamed you could achieve. But there are a few secrets, and the best one I reckon is that each stage of the build must be approach...Continue reading
18.01.2022 A List of tools for building a lapsteel weissenborn Guitar Whilst building my guitar I did not have access to many advanced tools such as one would find in a professional machine shop or woodworker's den. I really had to sit down and make some serious decisions about what I would and would not use during the build. I reasoned that, far back in the mists of time ,that guitar builders would pretty much do everything by hand but then the real horror of that struck me. I quickly ...Continue reading
14.01.2022 Building a guitar ..Why you should think about it Recently, I finished building a slide acoustic guitar, a weissenborn, in fact, I had for many years intended to do this but had always put it off. One of the reasons was, that it 'wouldn't be good enough'...quite reasonable, one supposes, under the circumstances. I cant begin to tell you exactly how many times I read through my guitar building books scouring through them totally and completely sucking every scrap of knowledge ...Continue reading
