Podcast 99: Luthier Scott Walker

Before he devoted himself to making electric guitars, luthier
Scott Walker spent years setting dovetail neck joints at the
Santa Cruz Guitar Company. With Walker’s most recent creation,
the Katana, he gets to combine the two chapters of his life in a
unique way. The Katana is a unique, stripped-down electric by
Walker’s standards and it has a memorable party trick – it
has a Japanese-style joint that bonds the neck to the body
without glue, bolts or screws. The instrument itself is
purposeful and simple: one-piece body and one-piece neck, no tone
or volume controls.


On this week’s podcast, we talk to Walker about the guitar, the
challenges he had making it and the prospect of this kind of
joint working in an acoustic instrument. Walker is always on the
vanguard of guitar construction techniques (you may remember our
feature on him in the Fretboard Journal #27) and this
instrument is no exception.  


Read more about the Katana on Scott’s website.