http://molterguitars.com Handcrafted Instruments by Danny Molter Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:53:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are some amazing pictures of John's guitar taken by my friend who is also a "Molter Guitar" owner. If you think his pictures are fantastic you should hear him play guitar. He is a very talented man.   [gallery link="file" orderby="ID"] http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/07/john-bs-dcs-gallery/ Well John finally here are some pics of the guitar with strings . You should be playing the guitar by sometime next week.   [gallery link="file" orderby="ID"] http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/07/complete/   Pretty soon I will begin a guitar for my favorite performing artist.  His music is so inspiring, meaningful, and incredible that he has been awarded several National awards, and been voted the Favorite artist in his genre multiple times. It will be an honor to build this guitar for him and ... http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/06/a-dream-come-true/ Well John's guitar has been buffed and had the bridge glued. I worked on the action today and from what I have played, the guitar sounds great.  John, I am pretty sure I have accomplished the sound you were looking for when you showed me the "other" guitar video. I ... http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/06/wow/ I have put the final coats of  lacquer on the guitar. I have glued the neck and am letting the guitar harden before buffing. This guitar has such amazing 3d figure. I cant wait to string it up. I know John is really excited and ready to get his hands on this ... http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/06/john-bs-dcs-final-stages/ Well if you thought this guitar looked good before with just mineral spirits on it, take a look at it now with one coat of lacquer. The koa is absolutely stunning along with the super curly maple bindings. You can really see the figure in the 5 piece mahogany, curly ... http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/05/first-coats-of-nitro/ Well I have routed the neck cavity and have fit the neck to the guitar. I have also drilled the tuner holes in the headstock and inlayed it along with fretting the fingerboard. The awesome Cocobolo bridge has been slotted and positioned on the guitar. I only have to shape the neck now ... http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/05/johns-final-construction/ I have installed the bindings on John's guitar and fingerboard. I used a maple and walnut chevron  purfling to compliment the Koa body. I have also bound the fingerboard with curly Koa to match the body and to contrast the maple fingerboard. I have installed a bookmatched Koa headstock on the ... http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/04/john-bs-binding/ Well John I am finally putting some pictures on the website. I cut the pickup hole and have rough profiled the neck and headstock. I have also inlaid the fingerboard with the abalone satelite pattern. The contrast is very nice on the birdseye maple fingerboard. I have cut two different ... http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/04/john-bs-progress/ I gave Ryan his guitar about 2 weeks ago. He was very excited with the final product. It was a long process but it came together pretty well.      I hope you love it Ryan. Send some pictures when you can http://molterguitars.com/guitar-blog/2010/04/ryans-delivery/