–> Continuing out neck build we slotted the fretboards and installed locating pins to position the fretboard for during gluing.

A huge thanks to Sanford Nowlin and the San Antonio Current for their recent article about our group! Read the article here.

At our meeting this month everyone brought their instruments to diplay. We were visited by Sanford Nowlin of the San Antonio Current for an upcoming article about the group.

More progress on our neck build. We thinned the headstock and drilled the truss rod access.

Continuing our neck build, we routed the outside shape.

At our meeting this month we began making bolt on electric guitar necks. As the first step we routed for installing the truss rod. A special thanks to Jerame Edwards and 31st Street Vintage Guitars for donating the supplies to get started. We are also very grateful to the 10bitWorks Makers Space for allowing us to hold […]

We had a great June meeting at our new location, The 10BitWorks Makers Space. We are very grateful to 10Bit for allowing us to hold our meetings there. This will allow us to work on some “hand on” projects and we spent much of the meeting getting ready to build bolt on guitar necks as […]

At our meeting this month we had a very interesting presentation by Rolando Casias about the Golden Ratio and its use in art, architecture, and design. Rolando makes beautiful classical guitars (in addition to being a fantastic painter). You can find more about him and his instruments at http://rolandocasias.com.

We were fortunate to have Danny Shoemaker of Straight Frets Guitar Service give a presentation about the capabilities of the PLEK machine at our meeting yesterday. The PLEK is a computer controlled machine that can level frets, plane fretboards, and cut nuts (among other things) with incredible precision. This machine is used by many guitar manufacturers and Straight […]

At the February 2019  Jerame Edwards demonstrated the use of the Erlewine Neck Jig – a tool that simulates string tension allowing more precise fret leveling. Jerame is a builder, tech, and manager of 31st Vintage: https://www.31ststreetvintage.com