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Article By TERRY BUDDELL

I recently completed construction of an acoustic slide guitar, a weissenborn, in fact, I've had for many years for doing that, but had always put off. One reason was that he was not good enough '... quite reasonable assumption in the circumstances. I can not begin to tell you exactly how many times...

For over twenty years, I had always been very curious about the construction of a guitar. I played acoustic guitars almost since I could remember. I had a friend who has lived much just down the road and we did everything together so when he announced he would learn to play guitar, of course, I...

GUITAR WEISSENBORN built by BUDDELL TERRY The plans before I even started to build my first Weissenborn guitar I was assailed by many doubts, as I'm going to screw it? Or suppose I get it wrong? and similar kinds of horrible thoughts, I would actually lie awake at night thinking about it, half...

What is the secret of how Martins, Gibsons, Taylors, wings, Gretsch and the like, its so chic? Responses should be clear really. They are made cleanly and beautifully from soundwood very good and the best materials and are always completed to look so shiny and squeaky clean in the store. However,...

For those of us who play guitar and are quite good with their hands, the thought of building your own guitar must have crossed your mind at some point .. go, you know it's true! Probably, like me, you recoiled from the thought of having to work at the peak of perfection to a level you never dreamed...

Having owned and played guitar for over twenty five years, I have much property and many different makes and models of guitars, some good, some terrible but the Weissenborn acoustic slide still fascinates me beyond comparison . Why? Well, the sound is really quite like anything, nothing compares....

I recently completed construction of an acoustic slide guitar, a weissenborn, in fact, I've had for many years for doing that, but had always put off. One reason was that he was not good enough '... quite reasonable assumption in the circumstances. I can not begin to tell you exactly how many...

While building my guitar I have not had access to many advanced tools can be found in a machine shop or den professional carpenters. I really had to sit and make decisions that seriously and I would not use during construction. I felt that far in the mists of time, the guitar manufacturers would...

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One of the great mysteries of increasingly modern shipbuilding today is the amount of hi-tech gobble-de-gook that the average homebuilder boat is intended to navigate through when it comes time to paint the boat after the appalling number of sanding, fairing and hard work (especially) and more...