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Holter Custom Pickguards, with Taylor Mullins The one-man shop with nearly 400 free templates: how Taylor Mullins went from scissors to a Shapeoko, why the good celluloid comes from Italy, and what a …

Scanning a broken headstock with the Creality Raptor, CNC-cutting a mahogany patch to the exact topology of the missing wedge, and finishing it back to Cherry Red. I've had the Creality Raptor 3D scan…

A full violin bow rehair, start to finish — assessing worn hair, the frog and tip mortises, fitting and gluing blocks, threading and tying the hank, wedges, camber, and when a rehair isn't worth it. I…

An Ibanez Musician came in missing one of its custom humbucker covers. Here's how I molded the original in silicone and cast a replacement pickup cover in pigmented epoxy resin. I have a client with a…

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…

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…

Mentors and Olson Routing Rings Mentors, molds, and the Olson routing rings that replaced "driving the bus." Hello again, welcome to episode 2. I’m pumped! Last time I did my best to say hello and upd…

Recently a 1941 Martin D-18 that had seen better days dropped in for some bridge work — the bridge was splitting on both treble and bass sides in fron