Five-year GAL member Fernando A. Jaén quit his engineering job and now makes guitars full time in Spain. That wouldnt be strange if he built Spanish guitars, but he makes jazz archtops.
▪ bio current as of 2022
Five-year GAL member Fernando A. Jaén quit his engineering job and now makes guitars full time in Spain. That wouldnt be strange if he built Spanish guitars, but he makes jazz archtops.
▪ bio current as of 2022
2022
AL#147 p.58
F.A. Jaen
▪ Heres an elegant and sophisticated way to build an adjustable bracket to support the pickguard of an archtop guitar. Most of it is inside the guitar, so it gives a slick, minimal look.
2020
AL#141 p.47
F.A. Jaen
▪ These linings are something like reverse kerfing, but they are built up in place, starting with an ingeniously aligned set of individual blocks. There’s always a new way to do it.
2010
AL#101 p.52 read this article
F.A. Jaen
▪ It seems reasonable that the strings of a guitar, not being parallel, could not properly lie on a fretboard that describes a cylinder, but the numbers say otherwise.