This blog is aimed at recording my experiences making a guitar. I have previously made one acoustic guitar based on the dreadnought style. The body type was pioneered by the C F Martin company and is now a common guitar body style. I picked the dreadnought style as I arrived in class with no idea of what I wanted to make. The luthier suggested the style and it seemed like a good idea at the time. It was! The finished guitar works well but as all players know it's not the guitar, but the man behind the guitar. Eugene Hideaway Bridges told me that, one Sunday afternoon at the Premier Hotel in Newcastle. Hey its a perfectly good guitar, no comments required on the man behind it!.
The title is inspired (well, directly lifted from ) the Durutti Column album of the same name released in 1987. However the focus is on the process of making a guitar and my experiences during that time. Vini Reilly, the man who is the Durutti Column, isn't really associated with the dreadnought guitar or the proposed "follow up " but he's a great player and its a cool name for a blog. Thanks Vini.
The goal is to finish up with Gibson ES 335 style hollow body guitar. This was the worlds first commercial arch top semi electric acoustic guitar. It has two violin style F holes. I picked it really 'coz I just liked the look of the guitar and the way it sounded when my son played his. I am making the guitar at the Australian Guitar Making School based in Toronto in NSW.
From the second week of April, when I start the project, this will be a weekly blog. I build every Friday! I should issue a few disclaimers here: I am a very scratchy player, you may not be able to make your own guitar based on my ramblings, sometimes I may rant on a bit other times I will be brief. Who knows ? However I'd love to hear your comments: Be gentle, keep it clean and rock on
