Charity auction!
We are selling off a guitar for charity, benefiting the MD Anderson Cancer Center. It's a Carvin DC-145, with a flame maple top, ash body wings, neck through maple neck,…
Marital therapy, part I.
This week we had a guitar come in with a... uh... a story to tell. The owner (let's call him "Bill", for reasons you'll soon understand) bought this guitar in…
Don’t cross the streams…
Today, we did something that might even make the Ghostbusters a bit squeamish. Is it ectoplasm? Not quite... This stuff is called Friendly Plastic - we sometimes use it to…
Oh my god! They killed Kenny!
Fretwork is hard on the body and hard on tools. The hardest part is crowning the frets - there can be as many as 26 frets on an instrument, and…
Geoff tours the Martin factory.
What do guitar techs do when they're on vacation? Make a pilgrimage to the C.F. Martin factory, that's what. A picture is worth a thousand words, so we'll dispense with…