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Mike and Chris good looking shops!!!

Yes, it's my own little slice of heaven in my backyard.
I worked and waited a long time for it. 24' x 34' (800+ s.f.)

-C

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Freeborn Guitars
and home of BeauGuard©

Chas buddy are you going to take us inside your guitar building mall please?

Maybe there's top secret jigs in there.

here's my usually spotless bench, i had to mess it up to make Sam feel better....

i wont even show you the rest of the place (yet). I did see a square inch of bare wall the other day, cant find it now though

it looks even better today after i was routing for 10 mins thinking the attached hoover was actually switched on...unfortunately it was just that the router was blasting out air and the dust with it straight onto every single thing within spitting distance (i verified)

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www.theguitarrepairworkshop.com

Your shop looks great Curtis! I like the parts packages hanging on the walls too.

The bad thing about wearing ear protection is that I have done what you did only with a thickness sander and the Festool was not on but I could not tell until my dog ended up looking like a powdered donut........

thanks Hesh, thats very kind, it looks such a tip to me really, and since 2 other shops have been emptied into mine its far far worse....i just hope i find a nice big box of Mullards in the piles of components that i've been 'given'!

but i spend 50+ hrs a week in there and i love it.

Wish i could have a dog with me in the shop, although i baby sat a tarantula there for a while. I have a mini camera that goes into acoustics and made my own little wildlife documentary showing 'Jeff' taking down a cricket in macro vision!

maybe i do spend too much time in there.....

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Curtis my friend Jeff has to be the worlds first tarantula who is/was a guitar building mascot.

Well, I've moved from my kitchen table to a corner in my bathroom.....lol

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"After forty-nine years of violin building, I have decided that the search for a varnish is similar to the fox hunt. The fun is in the hunt."
Jack Batts Maker and Repairer of Fine Violins

I enjoyed the video Kathy! I was wondering what you use to stand on to reach the chair that you use to stand on to reach things that are too high?.....lol

Hope you had a Happy Independance Day!

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"After forty-nine years of violin building, I have decided that the search for a varnish is similar to the fox hunt. The fun is in the hunt."
Jack Batts Maker and Repairer of Fine Violins

Hey Chuck bathrooms make great shops - that was my first shop that I built 10 guitars in. Here is one of my original avatars for the OLF.....

Thanks Hesh,
I may be disabled and can't spend the time I really want in my shop, and I may not know what I'm really doing is right, but dang, It sure feels goooooood when I have the opportunity.

Mike

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I'm outside looking in, just farther from the window than most.

Okay, here are some shots of my personal shop and then some of the shop where I teach.

Hey Robbie,
I think you forgot to use that bottle of titebond under the guitar with the top falling off....

Just kidding,

Nice shop. I like the office with the guitars hanging in there.

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"After forty-nine years of violin building, I have decided that the search for a varnish is similar to the fox hunt. The fun is in the hunt."
Jack Batts Maker and Repairer of Fine Violins

oops, I got trigger happy and hit submit before finishing the upload process.

That guitar hit the concrete floor and needs a little reapir work.

The office is actually my humidified/de-humidifed room. I also have my go bar deck in there. This way I can actually build the guitar in the RH zone that the guitar will be living in after it is shipped.

Here are some pics of my cosy 7ft x 18ft shop which is what is left of my double garage after everything else is housed. A warning for Hesh. Please only glance quickly at the pics to avoid serious traumatic flashbacks down the track.

Regards

Craig.

Great shops everyone. Here is a photo of part of mine from three years ago. Wood storage and machines are to the photographer's left. It is not as clean today. The most important tool in July in Oklahoma is the A/C.

Kent

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Kent Schoonover

WWW.schoonoverresophonicguitars.com

Kent,

That fly swatter looks like a pretty important tool as well!

Craig my friend I took some Valium before I looked at your shop and when I did I liked what I saw...... Thanks for the warning though.

Kent buddy you have a great looking shop with lots of activity evident. I get the feeling that you have been at Lutherie for a while. Is this a profession for you or are you a hobby builder? I am sure we would love to see some of those very cool looking guitars.

Mike my friend there is nothing like quality shop time!!!!

Robbie you have the mother of all shops!!!! I would get lost in there but it still would be fun. I get the feeling that the college that you teach at has made a commitment to offering guitar building going forward and it looks like they have invested in this too. Congrats my friend for all that you do!

Now yer cookin' with gas!

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Carlton Macksam
Muskegon, Michigan

And smellin' it too.....lol

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"After forty-nine years of violin building, I have decided that the search for a varnish is similar to the fox hunt. The fun is in the hunt."
Jack Batts Maker and Repairer of Fine Violins

Thanks Hesh! Indeed they are willing to make a long term investment in lutherie. I have some ideas to improve the program that I would like to implement in the next year or so. One of them is corporate sponsorship. If anyone has any ideas or experience in this area, I am all ears.

Robbie,
Yep, that's my cordless whizz-banger. It can be the difference between a good day and a bad day. .

Thank's Hesh. Yes sir, I would say I am semi-pro in as much as I put alot of hours in every week in addition to my day job. I am blessed to have a list to work off. It's funny, I have been building these things for 16 years but I still have a hard time refering to myself as a luthier. I have enormous respect for people that can do this and make a living at it. BTW, I love the look of your Black-top guitar. Very classy.


Kent
http://WWW.schoonoverresophonicguitars.com

Here are a couple of photos of the spray booth.

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Kent Schoonover

WWW.schoonoverresophonicguitars.com

Here is my cave.

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Greg
http://garibaldiinstruments.com/