Kauer Guitars - Carved top Jazzmasters

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 2:20 pm

http://kauerguitars.com/

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:53 pm

the scoop on the lower bout is kinda goofy. Not my thing at all, looks like a metal schecter or prs jazzmaster.

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:10 pm

Needs pickguard and is overall nasty.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:10 pm

The gold top makes that carve more noticeable. $3,850 guitars, and that are made by CNC routers

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:32 pm

Can't help but feel how some makers abuse the word "hand made". In my eyes, there are 3 kinds of builders.

CNC - some punk kid tosses a blank into a machine and 30 minutes later a guitar comes out. I'll give ya a few hundred bucks for it.

Jig Guy - he's got a jig for everything. Uses templates for body, offset router bits for binding, neck backs are shaped with XYZ/Duplicarver/Copycarver router jig, forearm jig for table saw, belly contour jig on bandsaw. You may be worth $2,000.

Master Woodworker - he eyeballs everything "with a good eye". The only template he uses is to sketch onto a blank. Free hand routing for bodies, no template needed, binding slots are cut using a chisel, necks are made with a knife and caliper, contours are made using spoke shavers. He's worth $4,000 cause he's an artist

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:21 pm

there was another thread about these recently: http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... &highlight