Luthier online, some advices by the master luthier Federico Cesarini, aimed at professionals and lovers of electric and acoustic musical instruments.
You can comment and ask for curiosity about your personal instruments.
A simple realization of Cesarini Custom Shop, an ebony pickup frame for single coil mod. Telecaster, on Fender guitar (DOBRO style).The end of the intervention is to raise the maximum possible pickup height, given the constructive lack of Fender on this model we will remedy.
This is a constructive fail on Fender’s building, that is quite serious
The use … Continua a leggere
Setting up regularly is perhaps the most important variable, to have a performance guitar or bass that does not lose value over time
These two Gibsons have been changed the frets (the same dimensions for … Continua a leggere
Discovering a true antique violin from the 1800s or 1900s can be very interesting.
The chinrest is a wooden part (ebony, boxwood, tamarindo, rosewood), which is mounted on violins and viola, through metal clamps that tighten by threading. It was invented in the early 1900s, so by many past interpreters it was not used. With the request for a repertoire, increasingly difficult to play, the chinrest has become an integral part of the instrument, … Continua a leggere
… Continua a leggereOnline market is larger and richer than many others market, the same can not be said for the wood market. This precious material is sometimes found in
False bow instruments and fake violins are circulating in Italy, with a non-real material value attributed to them. Violins and viole without an internal label, sold for the ancients of the ’40s and’ 50s, while in reality they are common entry level violins (Chinese or Romanian).
In the picture there is our C – Big Beat, Cesarini Vintage style humbucker pickups, winded with 0.050 mm thread. This pickup necessarily needs wax potting, since it would give, with the use of distortion, a series of particularly audible problems, even in a low-volume performance. With the comed era of Hi-fi and new Hi-end amp equipment solution, shielding … Continua a leggere
Today I removed all the frets from this EKO guitar n. 100, vintage semi acoustic from the 70s, Italian factory production (Recanati).
Removing the frets is usually a necessary operation on all vintage guitars, which have not had special care over time.
The frets needed to be changed with the use of the guitar, being composed of relatively soft metal … Continua a leggere
on pic a double bass rehairing
