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  In the Workshop.
   
  Guitar Workshop

 

   
   
  Giving new life to some old, interesting, rare or special archtops makes for a great retirement hobby 

......... but it is just a hobby so some of these lovely old guitars may take me a year or more to finish! 

To follow progress,  just click on the pics.

 

 

 

Alan Cramp.

     
  Currently in my Workshop:
     
  New Hofner Archtop   New Archtop.   My final Custom Hofner.

I have had it in mind to build this guitar for about 10 years.   So there has been  plenty of time to think it through,  get the design right, and source the parts.

It will be my final Hofner Custom -  the guitar that Hofner never built  -  a smaller sister to The Jazz Café.

       
       
  new pickguard for nys-2   New pickguard for D'Angelico.
       
    #109  Neubauer.

For assessment!

Decision time  -  shall I do everything (a full restoration)  or just what it takes to allow it to play nicely? 

 

 

 

 

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    #111  Rodebald Hoyer Jazzstar.

Rodebald's guitars are renown for their enormous acoustic voice.   I bought this one as a project.   I wanted to get inside it and understand its construction to find out how these amazing guitars had been made.   But it turns out to be in very good overall condition and requires much less work than I had expected.

Most of the hand carved Spruce-top Jazzstars are Blonde so this gentle sunburst example is of special merit.

Built in 1961 it deserves a full refurbishment to allow it to give of its best.

For progress updates,  just click on the pic.