Steblein Guitars

Things have been progressing with the latest build, albeit slowly, mostly due to summer conditions and some real bad humidity. Since the last post, the guitar body has been closed (tops and bottoms have been glued on, the neck joint has been chiseled out, and early preparations for the neck have begun. Perhaps we’ll focus […]

For the top, this guitar will be using Adirondack Spruce. Much like the back, we prepare and face glue bookmatched pieces to form a singular stock to work from. Working from the top, I start with the rosette groove. I start by using an lmii hole cutting jig as shown here. Essentially, you drill a […]

Both the top and back pieces of the guitar body consist of bookmatched pieces of stock which are intended to create a mirrored grain pattern in a single piece. When materials are acquired, they arrive as two separate pieces with need to be first edge planed, and then glued together to become a single sheet. […]

Currently in the shop, I am waiting for a shipment of larger stock Honduran Mahogany to mill out neck and end blocks for the new builds. While this is happening, I’ve taken advantage of the lull to mill out mahogany lining strips. The guitars at Steblein Guitars all use mahogany solid linings instead of kerfed […]

Today began the process of side bending for the current projects. I do manual bending with a bending iron for all my guitars. Through some experimentation over the last few projects, I have found that using around 195 degrees C and occasional water spritzing on the pieces yields the best results. This process is slow […]