last update : 9 February 2000
Welcome
First of all,
welcome to Lukassen Guitars WWW site. I've been playing guitar since 1991,
and I am still not bored by it. Although the playing gave me much pleasure,
it also led to a (vast) collection of instruments: today I own 2 western
guitars, one clasical guitar, a small scale flamengo guitar and a telecaster
clone. Spin-offs were a (still borowed) keyboard, a mandoline, a tin whistle
and a harmonica. If I could play half of my collection, I would be a happy
man ;) Anyway, it did learn me what I want in a guitar, the problem is,
it's not for sale ! So I surfed the internet in a desperate search for
help, until I found the Rec.music.makers newsgroup. I decided to start
building my own guitar.
Project overview
In order to get experienced before building an expensive guitar, I started
some project to learn skils in wood working and luthery in general.
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Project No. 1: [Status : DONE]
Construction of a simple bass guitar, the idea is that this guitar
will be bigger and therefore easier to construct than a six-string. (boy
was i wrong, but she turned out quite nice)
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Project No. 2: [Status : DONE]
10,000 miles service for the telecaster, including new paint, new wiring,
enhanced humbugger and if do-able a home made pickup. (a revival see the
bass construction page)
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Project No. 3: [Status : DONE]
Construction of the ultimate Guitar
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Project No. 4: [Status : under development]
Construction of an ultra light version of the JS guitar
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Project No. 5: [Status : researching started]
restauration of an old mandoline
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Project No. 6: [Status : not started]
restauration of an old western guitar
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Project No. 7: [Status : researching started]
Contruction of a Baroque Lute / Renacence guitar
What may you find here
Here you may follow the progress of my projects and, hopefully learn, from
it, maybe even be encouraged to pick up a chisel yourself.
Contact
Stay in touch if you have comments, tips, tricks, advice or need for tips,
tricks, advice etc.
Chris N. Lukassen
Mail : lukassen@bigfoot.com