Gibson EB-3L

09/11/2009 by Klaas 4

Gibson EB-3L

During my learning school at Centrum voor MuziekinstrumentenBouw, CMB, at Puurs, Belgium, in 2000 I made a Gibson EB-3L replica. I’ve choosen this electric bass because of the unique and original “slotted head” construction which I applied later to my new style sitars SAS-01 etc… This guitar has a…

electric guitar lutherie steelstring

27/06/2009 by Klaas 6

Pyramid strings

German stringmaker Pyramid has made some special strings, suitable for “electric” (working with electro-magnetic pickup) full size sitars. They make brass wound polished strings for laraj & kharaj 0.55mm (.021) & 0.74mm (.030) and heavy kharaj 0.92mm (.036). And also brass coated steel wire ranging from 0.18mm (.007) to…

31/12/2008 by Klaas 5

Jora tar intonation on SAS & SBS sitars

Many sitars suffer from an improper intonation. Mostly affected are jora and laraj kharaj strings. If you are lucky you should be able to play comfortable on the first couple of frets only. After this, immediately pulling meend to correct the tone becomes a must. It is almost a…

Jora Making SAS SBS steelstring tuning

27/09/2008 by Klaas 2

Jora tar tuning problem

Very soon after finishing the first 2 sitars (SBS-02 & SAS-01) I encountered a strange problem. The jora tar, which is now a steel string showed a strange behaviour. After tuning the strings properly and playing a meend on the baj tar (playing string) the jora sensitively raises in…

31/12/2006 by Klaas 2

Martin 01

Found some pictures of my Martin 01, which I made at CMB, Puurs, 1998 – 2000. The guitar has a beautiful head of walnutroot-veneer. As it was my first own built acoustic instrument, it took me 2 years to finish it. Body made out of rosewood, cedar top plate,…

guitar lutherie steelstring