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- FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
- Restringing Clinic:
- Strings
- General Maintenance
- An Introduction to Instrument Finishes
- Advice on Cleaning Your Instrument
- Packing for Travel or Shipment
- Heat Stress - It Kills Summer & Hot Weather Special
- Another Hot One
- Vinyl is Your ENEMY
- Looking at Cracks
- Loose Parts Can Rattle and Buzz
- Tapered (Friction) Tuning Pegs
- Tune Up Your Gears
- Loose Screws? Fix 'em Yourself
- Glue in a Label for Security
- Accessories
- Instrument Setup
- Acoustic Guitar
- Steel String Guitar Restringing
- Restringing Slotted Headstocks
- Classical Guitar Restringing
- Removing Tight Bridge Pins
- Cracked Bridges!
- Looking at Saddles
- Lowering Action at the Saddle
- Making a New Saddle
- Conversion to Left Handed
- A Gallery of Guitar Top Bracing
- Checking Neck Angle
- Basics of Archtop Guitar Setup
- Some Styles of Archtop Jazz Guitars
- That Ugly Skin on New Pickguards
- It's the Insidious "Key Crack"
- Some Basics About Guitar Tone Woods
- A Survey of Acoustic Guitar Pickup Types
- Watch Mike install a Fishman Matrix pickup
- What are Scalloped Braces?
- Jazz Guitars
- Banjo
- Banjo Restringing
- Common Types of Banjos
- Cleaning Banjo Heads
- Banjo Practice Mutes
- Keith Tuners - How They Work!
- Five String Banjo Anatomy
- Banjo Heads: Types and Construction
- Replacing a Banjo Head
- The Banjo Fifth String Nut
- Looking at Banjo Pegs
- Installing and Using the Fifth String Capo
- 5th String Spikes
- A Unique Fifth String Capo Idea
- How to Avoid Sagging Bridges
- Mounting Skin Heads
- Cleaning Banjo Heads
- Banjos and Nickel Plating
- Coordinating Rod Adjustment
- Pete Pardee's 23rd Fret
- Mandolin
- Ukulele
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- C. F. Martin & Co., Nazareth, PA
- Collings Guitars, Austin, TX
- Gibson's Acoustic Instrument Division, Nashville
- Guitar Building with Jeff Traugott
- CFox Guitars, Healdsburg, CA
- Vogel Guitars, Quito, Ecuador
- Kamaka Ukuleles, Honolulu
- Tacoma Guitar Co.
- USA Custom Guitars
- Visit Gryphon
- Gryphon's 30th Birthday Party, October 30, 1999
- What's New at the Store?
- Cats and Jammers House Concert 4/12/98
- About the Reviews
- GUITAR FINISHING, Step by Step - - - by Dan Erlewine
- MARTIN GUITARS - - - by Richard Johnston & Jim Washburn
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- Guitar Center Visits Gryphon
- The Luthier's Kitchen
- The Yowl-A-Lele
- Alice's Gryphon Page
- Luthiers' Licenses
- Washburn Made a Lot of Everything
- Father & Daughter United after 32 Years!
- Gryphon's Famous Free Picks
- The Folk Art Gallery
- Fine Art Instruments by Robert Armstrong
- Every Circus Needs a SIDESHOW
- Has anyone seen the rest of this banjo?
- The ORIGINAL Dreadnought!
- Photos of GRYPHON
- Nothing Like Those Old Master Finishes
- Hide glue in action <g>
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- Healdsburg, CA
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Nashville, TN
- Guild (Fender) Custom Shop
- Gibson's Acoustic Factory at Opry Mills
- A.S.I.A. Symposium, 2000 Photos
- NAMM, July 1999
- Marty Lanham's Nashville Guitar Company
- Gruhn Guitars
- Hatch Show Print
- Tom Ellis Precision Pearl Inlay Austin, Texas
- Shubb Capos, Valley Ford, CA
- Rick Davis Running Dog Guitars, Richmond, VT
- Ted Megas Guitars San Francisco
- Collings Guitars, Austin, Texas
- Hideo Kamimoto's Shop San Jose, CA
- 1999 Northern California Ukulele Festival
- Taylor Guitars El Cajon, CA
- Northwoods Guitar Repair Seminar 2000
- Northwoods Guitar Repair Seminar 1998 Bryan Galloup's Guitar Hospital, Big Rapids, MI
- 1998 Acoustic Guitar Festival San Rafael, CA
- Guild of American Luthiers Convention, July 1998
- Mario Martello It's Super Mario!
- Bills ABC Music, San Bruno, CA
- Joe Grubaugh & Sigurn Seifert, Violin Makers Petaluma, CA
- Down in Brian's Basement Palo Alto, CA
- Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery Phoenix, AZ
- What have I been doing lately?
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- Technical Q & A
- Product Reviews
- Data
- Materials
- Sources of Things I Use
- Deionized Water
- Everything I know about Hide Glue
- Heat Testing Glue Joints
- Some more sticky business about Glue
- Good Old Shellac
- Lampblack
- Guitar
- All About Adjustable Truss Rods
- Calculating Compensation Correction
- Shop Tips
- Repair Technique
- Setup
- Tuning Gear Repair
- Inlay
- Frets
- Tool and Fixture Making
- Tool Use
- High Tech Department
- Using Rare Earth Magnets
- Light Speed Repairs
- Finish
- Testing Finish Composition with Acetone
- Setting Up My Baldor Buffer
- A Simple Spray Gun Modification
- Filling a Strap Button Screw Hole
- Reattaching a big loose finish flake
- Amalgamating Checked and Damaged Lacquer
- Drop filling Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Repairing a lacquer check
- "Steaming Out" Dents
- A Quick Intro to Stick Shellac
- What is French Polish?
- Razor Blade Scraping
- Dry Staining Touchup
- Protecting A Celebrity Signature
- Truss Rods
- Structural
- Filling Holes in Spruce
- Regluing Plastic Binding
- Compressing Distended Loose Sides
- Plaster cast for Tracing Contours
- Garolite Bushing for Friction Peg Holes
- Celluloid Fingerrests for Archtops
- Cloth Reinforcement Patches
- A Volume Conrol to Cover Side Damage
- Fitting Tone Bars with Tom Ribbecke
- Fret Marker Inlay Dots
- Quick Fix for a Loose End Pin
- Magnetic Clamping
- Reading Grain Runout
- Molded Clamping Cauls
- Broken Headstocks
- Glue
- Guitar
- Tuner Installation
- Structural
- A Major Peghead Reconstruction
- Fingerboard Replacement
- A Chipped D-28 Soundhole Edge
- Martin Heel Cap Replacement
- "Deinstalling" an Endpin Jack
- Long Reach Tools for Crack Repair
- Archtop - ES175 Broken Tone Bars
- Bridge Plate Replacement
- Bridge Plate Overlay
- Conversion to 8-st. Octave Mandolin
- 1949 000-28 Top Failure
- Top & neck restoration - 1887 Martin
- The Loose Cross Brace Top Wrinkle
- Crack Repair
- Neck Resetting
- Neck Reset Technique: 1935 Martin 000-28
- Neck Reset: 1931 Martin 000-45
- A D-28's New Neck: Upgrade to Adj. Rod
- Impossible Neck Reset - it's a Spanish heel!
- 1946 Epiphone Triumph Neck Reset
- Taylor Neck Reset - Bolted Butt Joint
- Collings Neck Reset - Bolted Mortse & Tenon
- 1973 Gurian Neck Reset - Pinned Mortise & Tenon
- Classical Guitar Fingerboard Wedge
- Frets
- Pickguards
- Bridges
- Making a Saddle
- Removing Martin "through-cut" saddles
- String Ramps for Steel String Bridges
- Making a Martin Guitar Bridge
- Rebuilding a Shattered Flamenco Bridge
- Locating and drilling bridge pin holes "in situ"
- Martin Guitar Bridge Blanks
- Regluing a Martin Guitar Bridge
- Correcting Warped Bridges
- A Bridge Upgrade for A Gibson Hummingbird
- Carving the Martin Pyramid Bridge
- Repairing an Ivory Bridge - Filling Screw Holes
- Pickups
- Dan Erlewine's Special Pages
- Banjo
- Mandolin
- Fitting Mandolin Bridges
- Mounting a New Fingerrest
- Raising Nonadjustable Mandolin Bridges
- Vintage Tuner Repair
- Hidden Serials in Old Gibson Mandolins
- Structural
- A Little Mandolin Repair on the Side
- Gibson Mandolin Brace Regluing
- Reinforcing the Sagging Top of a Gibson "A"
- Truss Rod and Fingerboard Replacement
- Some Nasty Top Damage
- Loose Binding
- 1920 Gibson F-4:A Bad Looking Peghead Break
- Broken Peghead Scroll Repair and Reinforcement
- Flatiron 3K: broken back brace
- 1906 Gibson A-4: Rebuilding a Collapsed Top
- Frets/Fingerboard
- Ukulele
- Harp
- Case Repair
- Tools
- My Work Bench
- Making a Fluorescent Inspection Light
- My Traveling Tool Kit
- Proportional Nut Spacing Rule
- Kenny Hill's Spring Go-Bars
- A "one use" molding plane
- Modified Soldering Gun for Pulling Frets
- Upgrading Loose Dremel Bearings
- "Slo-Mo" Stationary Belt Sander
- Dry Pigment Storage
- Selecting String Cutters
- My Refrettimg Tool Kit
- Fret Height Gauge
- A Simple Magnetic Fence for Power Tools
- Taylor's Super Driver
- Bent Tools
- Shot Bag Neck Support
- Half a Pencil
- Bridge Carving Machine
- Shop-built Semiautomatic Lining Kerfer
- Gryphon's Fret Saw
- The Joint Knife
- A Two Bit Finger Saver
- Long Probes
- Articulated "Take Apart" Crack Clamp
- "Clamp Points" for easy positioning
- Bench Clamps
- Adjustable saddle routing base
- Special & Modified Clamps
- Refret Saw Guide
- Roy Noble's Dremel Router Base
- Bob Gleason's Nut Handle
- Folding Inspection Mirror
- Dan Erlewine's Rockin' Pin Puller
- Steve Crisp's Classical Guitar Tuning Stand
- Bridge Pin Hole Slot Saw
- Making Ergonomic Tool Handles
- Tim's Saddle Pal
- Making My Fret Expander Pliers
- My Favorite Power Tool
- My Weirdest Power Tool
- Neck Removal Fixture
- Neck Removal Air Harness
- Some of My Favorite "Stock" Tools
- Check Out the SpyCam!
- Taper Thickness Gauge
- Quickies
- Blow Away Chips When Routing for Inlay
- Velcro String Retainer
- Scraping Wood Dust for Inlay Filling
- Hot Epoxy for Dent Filling
- A quick and easy pickguard contour sander
- Tracing Body Outlines
- Adjustable bridges: the easy way
- Extracting Adjustable Bridge Posts
- Hydraulic Glue Injection
- Cleaning the Inside
- Fret Files are for Saddles
- Countouring Reinforcement Cleats
- Easy Plaster of Paris Molds
- Side crack repair - clamping a loose flake
- Cutting Binding to Size on the Band Saw
- Matching Bridge Footprints
- The Easy Way to Shim a Nut
- Perfect Aged Amber Lacquer
- Richard Hoover's Perfect Miters
- Pull-Cutting Back Saw for Frets
- Twisted Rope Clamp
- A Third Hand?
- Soda Straw Tricks
- More Tips and Tricks
- Burnishing Dowels to Size
- A Bit of Flush Trimming
- Coiling Band Saw Blades
- Reinforcing Those "Berna Assemblers"
- Klemmsia Clamp Extender
- A Quick One-Use Plug Cutter
- Shaping Celluloid on a Belt Sander
- Cut Sandpaper on a Bandsaw?
- "Power" Filtration - a finishing trick
- Magnetic Screwdriver Deluxe
- Mario's Bottle
- Plastic Wrap for Protecting Clamp Cauls
- Hide Glue From the Supermarket
- Capillary tips for disposable pipettes
- Toothpick "Brush"
- Keeping On Top of All Those Supply Catalogs
- Old Time File Cleaning Trick
- The "Steinway Touchup Kit"
- Lay Out Perfect Curves with Drafting Weights
- The Recycle Page
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