Rita MacNeil

Rita MacNeil "if you have a dream, don't waste your time"

I did some work for her bass player and some of the artists that were on her show. I met her through these people and wished I'd had the opportunity to meet her in person. She toured relentlessly (played the Horseshoe Tavern ) and won many awards, her show hosted a remarkably diverse cast of guest artists, she did a guest appearance on Trailer Park Boys, (I love that) Farewell Rita MacNeil.

Creative clamping 101

Sometimes you need very specific clamping pressure. This needed to be clamped from 3 directions. There are 2 small carbon fiber rods acting like a go bar inside the guitar holding a 3" piece of kerfing in place while the modified violin clamp and the spool clamp push back and down.

Danelectro head stock restoration

I had a Dbl Neck Danelectro come in needing new machine heads and a logo. The water decal ordered from the internet was problematic and not authentic. Danelectro silk screened their logo. After a few hours of research, several Youtube videos and a trip to the local art store and a print shop..... I got a screen made, did a couple practice runs and the headstocks were relogoed.

 

MacWiesen neck

Bolt on neck with tilt adjustment

Headstock roughed in 

The back of the headstock will be covered in walnut

MacWiesen

I've decided it's going to have 6 strings, the first 2 will be double courses. Could be tuned D,G,B,E or G, D, A,E.  I'm thinking black with white binding and a snake head stock.

Can this be fixed?

This guitar came in with a broken bridge plate, loose and fractured braces and of course a lifting bridge that included a portion of the top. Time was spent staring at it, pulling it out of the case, putting it back in again.....

Ignoring the overall damage, fixing it, one problem at a time, it came together. The structural issues were resolved and the top flattened. It plays well and is a nice sounding guitar.

It started as an experiment

After cold bending one side I did another and started down a path making something with no particular ending in mind. Here it is so far.We'll see what it turns into.