Craig Standridge is a retired Air Force veteran who came to Guitar Craft Academy to pursue his love of luthiery. Now graduated, he’s continued on with us as a teaching assistant and is growing his own repair business on the side. Check out his...
Steven Mather is lead instructor at Guitar Craft Academy. Inlay can be a difficult process to execute properly. I did a demo of inlaying a block inlay into a bass neck to demonstrate how I go about this process. Step 1: The first step is to measure the inlay...
Brian Nutter is the founder of Nutter Guitars and a Guitar Craft Academy faculty member. So, you’ve spent loads of time making the perfect guitar. But before you can buff it to a high gloss, you have to level the finish with sandpaper. Your finish at this...
For this month’s tech tip, I will show you a quick way to fill and recut a nut slot in order to raise it up. A slot that is cut correctly should hold the string in place at a height that clears the first fret. Sometimes a guitar nut slot will wear down over time and...
