The wood binding on this cutaway baritone guitar body is held in place
with cotton tape while the glue dries. The cardboard cover
protects the spruce top.

Two Martin Tiples and one no name Tiple are being converted
to a different set up, which requires changes in the pitch
of the neck, and a replacement bridge.

The shape of the Tiple bridges was influenced by an old black Gibson
Everly Brothers guitar from the 1960's that was in my shop for
some repair work at the time I was converting these Tiples
to their True Calling.

This is a Guild D40 with custom double pickguards, Guild D40 is a classic
and somewhat overlooked guitar. Mahogany back and sides.
Get yours today.

This is called an Archilaúd; it's a member
of the spanish Bandurria family,
which consists of the high pitched
Bandurria, the medium pitched Laúd,
and the low tuned Archilaúd.

The back and the sides are made of Yew,
or Taxis, which is usually found
on Lutes. It's a bit like Cypress.

This is a picture of my first self made guitar, built in six bewildering weeks
in the spring of 1980 under the tutelage of Bozo Podunavac in
San Diego CA, It is built like a concrete bunker and not all the frets
are where they are supposed to be, but this guitar is my best buddy.
Photo by Jeremy Pollard.

Teisco Spectrum 2 was made in the mid sixties in Japan,
truly one of the most imaginative and wonderful body designs.
It's like driving a Citroen DS except for the red light.
Photo by Jeremy Pollard

Somehow a plumber managed to step on
one of my Teisco NB2 bass guitars and
break the neck off. The remains travelled
with me from shop to shop, until it finally
morphed into an electric MandoCello
with the help of a Teisco guitar neck
and the eyeboggling Mother Of Aquarium
finish applied by Steve Olson, of Lansing MI

This is a rare sighting of an unmolested National Cone assembly,
showing the bisquit and the saddle in original and unaltered state.
The saddle is held in place with a small flathead screw.

In mid-construction of this baritone guitar
the desired tuning was changed from
A D G C E A to a higher pitch of
C F Bb Eb G C. This made the neck a little
shorter than is usual with a baritone guitar.
Photo by Tuc Piyanun.

The rosewood body of this baritone guitar
is bound in ebony with a single strip
of lipstick red dyed maple. the body shape
came out of my first Bozo Podunavac
student model mold.
Photo by Tuc Piyanun.

I started lowering my daily caffeine doses after making this guitar.
Half Teisco, half Stratocaster, the idea was to combine the Bigsby
vibrato feeling with the sound of the spring loaded stratocaster bridge.
The big knurled knob at the end of the tailpiece adjusts
the tension of three or four long springs suspended over a pickup
inside the guitar body. It was wired up in stereo, one channel
would have the signal of the pickups, the other channel would be
the sound of the amplified body springs. I can't remember
exactly what kind of a case I came up with, but I do recall
it felt like trying to smuggle a giraffe out of the zoo.

These two early 1930's National Polychrome Triolians were sent in
for repair from opposite ends of the country and arrived within
a few days of each other. They had consecutive serial numbers.
Photo by Stanley Jay.

Matt D'Ambrosio was a coworker in my shop on
Staten Island somewhere around 1996.
He now owns D'Ambrosio Guitars in
Providence RI, and combines making arch top
guitars with doing fine guitar repairs.
www.dambrosioguitars.com

What made Tony Marchitelli laugh out loud was relief that he didn't
have to work on the red Cipher guitar he's holding here. Although
the neck plate says :by InterMark: it appears to be a Japanese
Guyatone Instrument. After working in my Staten Island guitar shop in
1999 Tony Marchitelli started Majestic Guitars and is located in
Caldwell NJ. www.majesticguitars.com. The Red Cipher guitar
ended up with a local car mechanic in trade for fixing the 8 Track
Stereo in my car.

This is Jeffrey Mironov; reacquainting himself
with his D'aquisto 12 string arch top guitar
after Matt D'ambrosio resuscitated it from third degree
cellulose nitrate fume poisoning.