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  Indian Laurel vs Rosewood – Is Laurel A Good Guitar Tonewood?

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  I’d say Indian Laurel is as close to Rosewood as possible tonally, without being Rosewood itself.

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  ......one thing is for certain, Music is Powerful!

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  So little is understood about the power of music, but one thing is for certain, Music is Powerful!

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  Inside Look – Ron and Lamar on the last day of their 8 Day Guitar Building Workshop

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  Students Ron and Lamar ream their bridge pins to fit, slot the nut and give their guitars a final setup, before stringing them up and playing them for the first time!

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  T. Chowdiah: The Man Behind the Seven Stringed Violin

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  As a 12-year-old when T. Chowdiah once accompanied a popular vidwan at a concert in Mysore, he was embarrassed about his bow slipping into a fleeting phrase of apaswaras (wrong notes)....

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  Over 200 sets of "Air Dried" East Indian Rosewood in stock.

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  We have over 200 sets of "Air Dried" East Indian Rosewood in stock. Ready to ship to any of our USA customers. Get yours today. Don't forget about acclimation time, give your order time to acclimate!

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  Making a Guitar Mold – Video Tutorial

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  Making a Guitar Mold – Video Tutorial

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  Toasted Timber and Gifts

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  Toasted Timber was born out of creativity and from the heart of Jennifer Wakefield and her husband Travis. They make anything that can be burned into wood and some of the coolest looking pens. Their busy lives, a son and their love of working together keeps them quite busy....

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  August Newsletter 0820 Issue 002

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  Newsletter for our fans

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  Installing Binding with Side Purfling on Guitar No. 56

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  I’ve attached a thin maple strip to the edge of my ebony binding strips and now I’m cutting the binding channels, and addressing the miters between the florentine cutaway tip and the end seam.

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  Attaching Side Purfling to Binding Strips for Guitar No. 56

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  I show how I use specialty joining boards to glue purfling strips to the edge of binding strips in order to create side purfling.

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  Prepping a Ziricote Fretboard for Guitar No. 57

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  I resaw, dimension and slot a fretboard out of a waste piece of Ziricote for Guitar #56

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  Making a Rosette for Ramon’s Classical Guitar

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  Ramon visits the shop to work on a cool radial rosette design with black limba, burl, and fiber strips. We’re using the Radial Rosette Maker Jig available here: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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