05/11/2026
Congrats, Noland.
ETSU Guitar Building
page highlighting activities of the ETSU Guitar Building project of the Engineering Technology and Bluegrass programs.
ETSU regularly offers two courses in guitar building: an electric guitar design/prototype/build class and an introductory acoustic guitar building course. The electric guitar course is ENTC 3600 Manufacturing Technology, a three (3) credit hour course is offered during the Fall semesters as part of the Manufacturing, Product Development & Industrial Technology concentrations of the Engineering Te
05/11/2026
12/31/2025
ETSU' faculty members Holger Olesen and Trey Hensley representin'.
2026 SPBGMA nominees (https://bluegrasstoday.com/2026-spbgma-nominees-announced/)
12/31/2025
Congrats to our talented colleague, Holger Olesen, for his nomination for SPBGMA Best Dobro Player and best wishes going forward into 2026.
08/21/2025
Over the last couple of days, we been witnessing the slow disassembly of the 's steamplant's 'ETSC' smoke stack. I hasn't been used for over a decade when natural gas-fired furnaces replaced the old, obsolete coal systems. But it has been a landmark at least on the northwest side of campus.
08/08/2025
Fiducials are marks placed on an object to help with analysis. In discussing some possibilities of multi-camera video analysis, we realized that we needed to laser etch some fiducials onto the soundboards to help with photo and video post-processing of the various plates for scaling and orientation. The vertices of the two mirrored 3-4-5 right triangles fall in the 'spaces' of all ten (10) of our acoustic bracing footprints. In theory, it should work.
07/18/2025
To celebrate this artist's storied career, we are putting together an tribute band. What songs should be in the set list? I mean other than "West Texas Dreams" and "No Signal in the Valley?"
07/17/2025
...and, BOOM!
Introducing ARTIST Project Test Article #2: an acrylic LDR-550 ladder-style braced, 1.5mm (0.059") thick acrylic soundboard.
Spoilers! It makes 'appropriate guitar noise.'
07/17/2025
07/16/2025
Holger Olesen gives our prototype ETSU DT-1860 de Torres-style braced acoustic guitar an introduction and a quick play.
This bracing design is a steel string variant of Antonio de Torres' classic 'classical guitar' lower bracing design (AKA 'the cow-catcher') adapted for use in the STEM Guitar Project's Acoustic Kit. This guitar also sports the prototype 'ET Copperhead' semi-straight pull laser-cut headstock and companion CNC-routed fingerboard of leopardwood with rosewood fret markers.
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