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handmade acoustic guitars | the instrument of your dreams

by jonas on Mar.02, 2009, under Custom Guitar Articles

Rose color Sunburst Custom GuitarThere are many people that own guitars or are considering purchasing a guitar for themselves or someone they love. They make great Christmas gifts, especially for young children. Musical instruments are a great gift to get for your little one, the whole family will have such a great time enjoying watching them play with it for the first time, it will be so entertaining. The family will have the ability to create many lasting memories to last a lifetime. Some people are choosing to have their guitars custom made. This is a great idea if you are wanting to show off your creative side. Having a guitar custom made will allow you to create a design, any design that you may want. It is a fun way to make the instrument of your dreams.

Custom guitars are created by experienced professionals for any kind of person, for all styles and tastes, from tough girly looking to total hardcore, it is all up to you. These are created to make you happy, so that you can show off your custom made guitar to all of your friends and family, they will all be so envious, wishing they had one for themselves. These are really a tasteful work of fabulous art and if you are interested in having one made for yourself then all you have to do is look into it, ask around, do the research. In no time, you too, could have one of these brilliantly made guitars of your choice. Now these types of guitars are not created for you to actually play them, they are specifically designed for you to show off to everyone, and possibly one day sell it for a whole lot of money.

It is no different than having a custom made bike or a custom made car, they are all unique and one of a kind. The same design is rarely ever used more than once, that is what makes your guitar so special and so unique. The designs that the manufacturers come up with are rarely marketed because of not wanting the same design put on different guitars, they want their piece of art to remain a one of a kind. The most common type of material they will be using would be rosewood. This material is so popular because of its lasting ability. Just make sure that they are using this when you have your own guitar custom made.

If you are interested in having a guitar custom made for you then you need to start now doing the research. Once you find the professionals that you are interested in using, contact them, go in and talk with them, tell them exactly what you are wanting. These specialists are ready and willing to please you and if you contact the right ones, you will know that you will be working with a reputable business. The result will be a one of a kind, fine piece of art, just for you.

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Tags: Custom Guitars, Dreams, Experienced Professionals, Fabulous Art, Guitar Custom, Handmade Acoustic Guitars, Handmade Guitars, Musical Instruments, Tasteful Work, Types Of Guitars

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What Gives a Custom Acoustic Guitar that Exceptionally Great Sound? Part 1.

by jonas on Mar.01, 2009, under Acoustic Guitar Builders, Build A Guitar

Soundboard BracesWhat Gives a Custom Acoustic Guitar that Exceptionally Great Sound? Part 1.

Many factors come together into the puzzling and complex issue; what goes into a custom acoustic guitar to make it sound great? To answer this question is very complex and I’ll suggest to you step by step. Articles will follow this one that will encompass the details of each of the factors involved.

THIS ARTICLE IS INTEND TO BRIEFLY TOUCH UPON SOME OF THE BASICS OF THIS SUBJECT – Great sound in Custom Guitars

First of all, the sound that comes out of any guitar is just what it is, as you hear it. Our Judgment of it is based on what we come to judge throughout history and what we have come to accept as todays standards set by others to what a Good or Bad Sounding guitar for should sound like.

In other words, in nature there is no such thing as a good or bad sound in a strict sense. It’s only what we have come to accept as standards to what a guitar should sound like. Developing this idea further, hopefully, in the future we can learn to set higher standards and maybe the custom guitars at that time would even sound better than todays guitars. Woudn’t that be awesome?

Wave dispersionThe standards were achieved by ground breaking companies such as Martin Guitars and Gibson, who spent money and research to allow standards to exist within the ‘sound’ of a custom acoustic guitar, or any custom guitar for that matter.

OK, let’s get to it.

When you pluck a string, this produces an energy wave that we know as sound. What this guitar must do is transfer the energy introduced by plucking the strings. This is what I call the ‘final common denominator’.

The guitar string energy in motion is transferring through the whole thing (glue and everything, with a dependance also as to the current temperature), how this perceived sound being generated by a complex system, finally producing that resulting factor we call ‘resonance’.

In other words, everything combined about this “Complete Unit” and all its complexity called a “Guitar”, contributes to the sound you are hearing at the moment the strings are put into action.

Therefor the sound depends on:

  • The Design of the guitar, it’s shape.
  • The construction, the manner in which the guitar is constructed.
  • The types of woods used in the guitar making process
  • The types of bracing inside on the soundboard.
  • The materials used for nut and sandal, including the bridge pins.
  • The finnish used on the outside of the guitar.

Audio Wave Dispersion There’s more on this later. Ideally a guitar should sound like, what? It’s only limited to our imagination. Therefore a custom guitar builder of any size has the same ability to further advance the sound quality of any custom built guitar.
What I’m going to share with you over the course of several articles, are some secrets about this and how do we go about constructing a great sounding guitar in practice.

This article will concern itself with the Construction in general and we’ll touch upon the woods and others stuff in a later article. After I built my first Martin Guitar, many years ago with the guidance of my Father a Master craftsman himself during my youth;
I discovered that:

As a general rule, a lighter built guitar would bring out tones more clearly, and with the right construction technique, a louder response.

The energy brought forward by plucking the strings had less mass to hide in, less places to get lost or trapped. The energy had less ‘knee jerk’ obstacles to overcome hence forth, due to fine shaped braces, more on that later. In other words as a direct result, the guitar became more alive and responsive.

The advantage of that is that the whole guitar becomes more flexible and at the same time more producing a likeable and even louder sound. The thinner I made, the back, sides and top, (up to a point, more later) the more sound was able to transfer through the woods. The wonderful advantage of this is that the player can feel the sound transferring into his ear, guts, and body while playing my guitars. As a result, a better and direct connection and relationship with the musician. The guitars simply talk better to the players.

This has to be done within it’s own limitations for obvious reasons, the overall strength of the guitar must be maintained we’ll discuss it in a later chapter.

THE INSIDE GUTS

When you look at the basic Martin Cross bracing pattern for the sound board, you’ll feel the representation of a water reservoir or lake. The idea is that if you throw a rock into a calm lake, it produces wave patterns, getting smaller the farther they travel until they disappear back to the balanced state of the water surface or to its original neutrality.

Because the waves of water are essentially the same as the waves in the air, slower because of a thick medium; the idea is to construct the soundboard bracing pattern in such a way that the wave energy generated by the strings, is gently and ‘smoothly’ transferred into the guitar’s soundboard. To help transfer this energy wave back to a state of natural balance of the sound board shape, just like it’s counter example in nature, the rock thrown into the water.

These are the kinds of revelations one receives as a master guitar craftsman, like myself. This way we can create the sound waves the way that I want. This is the doorway to understanding a bit more on creating even better sounds in the future, like the sounds that are produced in the Peace Guitar.

Energy Dispersion Structure and Bracing PatternIn the case of making a guitar sound good, or Great, on this one point:

It is the individual shapes of the braces that represent water waves. And, the idea is to help the energy waves return to their original balance of rest.

But the fun of all this is, that I get to surf the waves right in my guitar building shop. I am proud to say that the more attention I pay to this phenomena, the better the guitars turn out and come to sound.

My favorite quote: “better sound is a concept that may be in perpetual changing mode due to human perception.”

Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Custom Guitar, Custom Guitars, Gibson, Guitar Part, Guitar String, Martin Guitars, Resonance

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Every musician is particular about instrument set up.

by jonas on Feb.27, 2009, under Custom Guitar Articles

Guitarists like to have their guitars custom-made to reflect their unique identity. Custom-made guitars are a unique combination of order, expertise, dreamy innovations and intuition clubbed together to make a fine piece of art. Studio owners and professional players all swear by custom-made guitars, and they are very popular.

There are radical custom designs that are incorporated from every facet of art to produce a custom made guitar. Creators of custom designs release very few pieces of any particular make, in order to keep it a unique creation. They have artistic designs that run through the entire front of the guitar. The designs are made of different materials andCherrywood Finish crafted using techniques similar to furniture making. The most common material used to produce custom guitars is Rosewood. It is used for making concert instruments, and is generally aged for 15 to 30 years. It is therefore considerably better than virtually all other commercially available material. Other materials used are ribs and backs that are stored at a controlled humidity to ensure their stability before use.

The designs of a custom-made guitar may be complex and intricate, adding in a particular theme or an outlook. A custom-made guitar is considered a collector?s item and usually created from the most exquisite materials available. Guitarists do not play these guitars ? they flaunt them as a showpiece. Large guitar manufacturers often issue these guitars to celebrate a significant historical milestone.

Custom made guitars have high historical value and fetch large amounts of money when auctioned. Rock bands are usually associated with the use of customized instruments to exhibit their personalities. The famous rock star, Jimmy Hendricks is known to have auctioned his guitar for over $1 million. Just like custom bikes, cars, houses, furniture and clothes, custom guitars have seen an upsurge in popularity especially amongst the modern rock bands of the 21st century.

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Tags: Concert Instruments, Creators, Custom Guitars, Custom Made Guitars, Exquisite Materials, Guitar Manufacturers

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Jonas Guitars | Hand Built Acoustic and Bass Guitars

by jonas on Feb.25, 2009, under Acoustic Guitar Builders

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Custom acoustic guitars are guitars that are customized according to the specifications of a specific guitar player. Generally, acoustic guitars are easy to handle and are popular with most guitarists. But still, people like to have guitars especially made for themselves to meet their specific comfort and usage needs.

The concept of customizing things came up with the increasing expectations of people for comfort with whatever they use. With custom made objects, you just don’t have objects in your hands, but you have your desires, expectations, taste, and desires in a simple package. Acoustic guitars  can be customized according to the needs of just about any type of guitarist with relative ease, if the guitarist is willing to pay the fees.

Custom acoustic guitars are very famous in the market for the sheer reason that you can design them in whatever way you want and apart from changing the looks of your guitar, you can even change the way they sound. Each and every aspect of the guitar can be chosen on your own, including the wood used for guitars, the kind of tuning pegs used, and the shape in which it can be designed.

Usually different varieties of woods go into the making of acoustic guitars. You can choose from a variety of woods like mahogany, rosewood, cedar, cherry, ebony, walnut, maple, and so many other things. The tuning pegs can be made of silver, brass, gold, and anything that you want. The sound quality can be adjusted according to your wish and it gives you a unique feeling of being yourself when you play your custom made guitar.

Custom acoustic guitars are made in smaller numbers only for the people who want them. So, they are bound to be costlier than mass-produced ones. It is also possible to get custom made replicas of famous guitars from the past.

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