Paul H. Jacobson, Luthier

Guitar Features

• Twelve-hole Bridge—This unique way of attaching strings at the bridge offers many advantages.  Creating tools to make these bridges was a major design project earlier in my career.
• Twist-plane Fingerboard—How do you give  the bass-E string enough room to vibrate when you're playing with gusto but keep the treble-E string close enough to the fingerboard to let you play those lightning-fast passages?  Follow this link to find out how I make this possible.
• The Abominable Rising Neck—You've played that guitar (I hope it's not the one you're playing now) with the string action that keeps getting higher and higher every year.  The optimal solution is simple and absolutely reliable, so why aren't other builders doing it?
• Preventing Warped Neck—A little bit of reinforcement can give you a very stable neck...so stable you have to put a little warp into the fingerboard on purpose (called "relief" when it's the right amount) to make the guitar play like it should.
• Attaching the Neck—The traditional method of doing this on classical guitars has serious technical and structural deficiencies.  I've come up with a better way, like the one used by steel string guitar makers.