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What did Schoenberg do to his bracing that made is so good?

Have other people make it?

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Pat

Did he build guitars...............???
Tom

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A person who has never made a mistake has never made anything!!!

He had Dana Bourgeois do it

And Bruce Sexauer.

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PMoMC

And Julius Borges - the best of them all.

I guess he just sold guitars built by other folks.............???
Tom

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A person who has never made a mistake has never made anything!!!

That's right Tom, Eric Schoenberg is not a luthier. Instead he commissions guitars to be built to his specifications and sells them under his brand. They are modelled upon guitars build by Martin during the fabeled pre-war era. You can read a lot about the early history of Schoenberg guitars here:
http://www.gansz.org/David/Guitars/Schoenberg/Index.htm

In short, as a professional musician and guitar shop owner, Eric fell in love with the OM guitars that Martin built from 1929 to 1933. In 1986 he began a collaboration with luthier Dana Bourgeois and C.F. Martin to produce the OM once more, after decades of absence. The new OM had a cutaway designed by Eric and Dana and was called "The Soloist". Dana selected and thicknessed the tonewoods, braced/tap-tuned the soundboards, etc. The "parts" were then taken to the Martin factory for final assembly and lacquering. The completed guitars had a Martin serial number but Eric's logo on the headstock.

Dana left in 1990 and would eventually start his own company in Maine. His role in the collaboration was taken by his apprentice, TJ Thompson. Schoenberg's collaboration with Martin ended in 1994, and Julius Borges (another of Dana's apprentices) took on the job of building guitars under the Schoenberg label. Today, Eric's guitars are hand built by a number of prominent luthiers, such as Bruce Sexauer, John Slobod, and Robert Anderson.