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Ask a Luthier – Question & Answer archive
Previously posted questions:
- Multi-Scale and Fanned Frets
- Veneer and Bridged
- Strap button
- Slight separation of soundboard seam
- Reglueing the neck joint
- Engelhardt upright bass hole
- Arch Top Guitar
- Guitar Finish
- Wide Neck Mossman
- Ye Ole 2nd String Wolf Tone
- Original Timber creek bridge pin
- Wood grain filler
- Repairing Pickguards
- Vintage Guitar Ques
- Crack through violin low G tuner hole
- Mossman bridge pins
- Another Gold Tone Neck Issue
- Kay archtop neck reset / bridge install (update)
- Steel Reinforced Neck
- Bent tuning peg on vintage guitar
- 1964 JB Hutto Montgomery Airlines Guitar Replica
- Acoustic Guitar Fretboard Question
- 1960 Gretsch 6120
- Mandolin bridge and very sharp G strings
- Testimonial
- Restored 69 Les Paul custom
- 2011 USA Deluxe Stratocaster V-Neck
- Crack through tuner hole
- Fender Stratocaster Truss Rod
- Using acrylic lacquer?
- Brazilian Mossman
- 1958 Gibson J-50
- Fender Strat ’96
- Violin
- KPPA Newsletter Articlefor June/July
- Tune-o-matic saddle and stop bar tailpiece
- Neck reset on old Airline Arch top Acoustic guitar
- 1958 Gibson J-50
- Neck reset on old Airline Arch top Acoustic guitar
- Martin D-17 truss rod problem
- Solid body guitar to fix
- Neck reset on old Airline Arch top Acoustic guitar
- Violin Bridge
- Saddle Question
- Englehardt cello
- Violin waxing
- AEDG 12 string
- School Career Project
- A guitar question (KPPA Newsletter)
- Fretless Bass Conversion
- Gold Tone Factory Setup Tour video
- The Kansas Pi Guitar
- RE: C# and Db are not the same note
- C# and Db are not the same note
- Simple Tele Question
- Fender Deluxe Strat neck
- Acoustic Bridge Pickup
- Spruce Top Classical
- Bulge at saddle
- New York Times article on the Alferd Packer Band
- Why Guitar Players Spend Half Their
Time Tuning? - Price, Convert 4 string viola to 5 string
- Kansas d130
- Bad finish
- Keeing the neck straight while leveling?
- J S Kansas guitars
- Guitar tuning problem
- Harmony Top Bulge?
- ’77 Mossman Southwind
- Gibson Four String
- McSpadden dulcimers
- Cracked neck to body joint on an electric
- Violin
- Bone nut / Fret job
- Octave on a string violin 3/4
- 1976 Giannini
- Tuning question
- Abrasion due to missing binding
- Question regarding a 60’s semi hollow guitar
- Making my first Mandolin nut
- Ditson Bowlback Mandolin
- Subject: E and A Mandolin String
- Pick Guard
- 5 Stringers
- Question from Helsinki
- Twisted vioin bow
- Replacing truss rod
- Broken ebony mandolin bridge
- Tuning peg, Breedlove six string
- Newsletter Article
- Strat body with chip
- Replacing a Tune-o-Matic saddle
- My Gibson J50
- Which strings?
- Eastman strings 2007 viola
- Cello problems
- Guild D55
- Neck Reset
- Making a 24-fret neck a 22-fret neck
- 1st fret buzz
- Kay upright bass
- Low F-string, 5 string viola
- Newsletter article
- Hex Nut Stripped on Bass Guitar
- 1972 Martin D-35
- Wolf Tone in Ukulele
- Wurlitzer, Kansas connection?
- Double-necked Dulcimer
- Bacon mandolin repair
- Not enough relief
- Mandolin Top
- Truss rod squeaking on a new guild
- Vaccuming a guitar?
- Buzzing Strings
- Pre-War Bacon mandolin
- JS Kansas
- Mandolin string gauge & sound
- Applause acoustic guitar
- Gibson SG (pt.1)
- Gibson SG (pt.2)
- Newsletter Article (from the archives)
- Fret Question
- String height/size on a Guild acoustic
- Tight strings on a Telecaster
- Replacement tuning peg
- Fixing Cracks
- 5-string violin
- Playing along with a CD player
- Les Paul finish
- Gibson ES-335
- Rattling parlor guitar
- Upgrading banjo frets
- Sound Post Placement
- A wider nut and fretboard for a metal body resonator guitar
- 3/4 size Five String Fiddle
- Guild JF212-XL
- Dead Note
- Need Help!
- Viola fitting question
- The Brightest Nut & Saddle
- Adjusting a Chinese-made plywood bass
- My Uke’s Finish
- 1970’s Harmony Monterey Mandolin
- Just bought me a new epiphone EJ 200
- Question on a guitar
- ES-175 braces unglued
- Mandolin nut string spacing
- Replacing guitar back
- Truss rod wrenches
- Sound board rattle
- Blood on the frets
- ES-175 with top caved in
- Fret Leveling
- Hard to find top buzzes
- Problem when changing tunings
- Custom strings for odd instruments
- Replacing the back on an Epiphone EJ200
- Fender string breaking at the saddle
- Replacing Fender truss rod
- Installing a truss rod
- Loose top on a Yamaha 310
- Replacing a Mandolin bridge
- Mossman Guitars “Agony of de feet”
- Repairing concave top on a Victorian era guitar
- Straightening a violin bow
- Wrong solutions for a warped 12 string top
- Warped top on a Guild D55
- White stains on a black guitar
- 12 string tuning
- J. S. Kansas Guitars
- Fretboard replacement