It often happens that even grown up guitarists do not cope well with a full-size guitar. One reason for this are often small hands, making it difficult to play on a regular fretboard. A small body size, which is accompanied by a corresponding arm length, also impedes the relaxed playing on a full size guitar ...continue reading "Small Guitars for Small Hands"

We often have customers who want to switch from classical guitar to steelstring guitar. Soon the question of the neck width comes up. Of course the player of a classical guitar would not give up the comfortable playability when switching to the acoustic guitar. However, to set the neck width of a steelstring guitar the ...continue reading "Nut Width for Classical Guitars and Steelstring Guitars"

Does this sound familiar? The guitar must be sent for repair or to be taken along for a flight. To avoid nasty surprises one has to handle this issue prudently. Often guitars have arrived at our workshop worse than they were sent or a vacation began with a broken guitar. What to do when sending ...continue reading "Transporting a Guitar"

Some time ago we could lay our hands on some very special Sitka Spruce tops. The wood for this guitar tops has been lying as fish traps in the salty water of the yukon delta  from the 1920s to the 1980s with total absence of air, to then be processed to tone wood and again ...continue reading "Tone Wood from the Yukon River"

It is a common phenomenon that right-handed guitars are sold to left-handed players even in music stores. Very popular is  the recommendation to simply apply the strings the other way round. And why not? The guitar is a symmetric instrument - isn't it? Left-hand guitar by re-stringing upside down? Well, try to conduct the low ...continue reading "Left-handed Guitars"

From the raw wood to the finished guitar we show photos of the building process of a mini Jumbo steel string guitar.