The Hub

Part one of a 1955 Gretsch Roundup restoration — a played-to-death cowboy guitar with a loose, up-bowed neck and a truss rod frozen solid. Reprinted with permission from Vintage Guitar Magazine. Origi…

Splinting a crack in an old Epiphone archtop — with spruce borrowed from the guitar’s own fretboard extension, and a sliver of old piano soundboard.

Repairing damaged binding and purfling points and replacing mismatched ivoroid point caps on an F5 mandolin — with 3D-scanned, CNC-milled cast-resin binding, color-matched and tinted to disappear. Thi…

Ian sits down with Anders Nicklasson of True Temperament to trace the 20-year arc behind the squiggly frets — how the temperament was developed by ear, what luthiers can buy today, and why three-chord…

EWA A106 Speaker Mount — Listening to Music or "Treatment" A bridge-mount that clamps a $15 EWA A106 speaker to your acoustic — for tunes or vibration "conditioning." The EWA A106 speaker is available…

B.K. Vaught walked in with a heavily modified, refinished '57 Strat. We put a three-person team on it — strip the paint, replace the decal, narrow the bridge spacing, and bring it back to playable. Re…