GTRB1472 Guitar Repair and Building Specialty Lab II This course content will be determined by the instructor and student together. The content will involve guitar or other fretted instrument repair and or construction. The purpose is to have the student set goals for themselves and follow through with the work required to complete these goals. (Prerequisite GTRB1400) (2 credits: 0 lecture/2 lab) GTRB1473 Guitar Repair and Building Specialty Lab III This course content will be determined by the instructor and student together. The content will involve guitar or other fretted instrument repair and or construction. The purpose is to have the student set goals for themselves and follow through with the work required to complete these goals. (Prerequisite GTRB1400) (3 credits: 0 lecture/3 lab) GTRB1474 String Specialty Lab This course content will be determined by the instructor and student together. The content will involve guitar or other fretted instrument repair and or construction. The purpose is to have the student set goals for themselves and follow through with the work required to complete these goals. (Prerequisite GTRB1400) (4 credits: 0 lecture/4 lab) GTRB2400 Advanced Guitar Repair This course covers more advanced fretted instrument repairs such as neck and headstock crack, top, back, side, and brace crack repairs, splines, patches, fretwork on non-adjustable necks, and neck resets. Bridge plate removal and techniques for flattening acoustic tops will also be discussed. Completing basic set ups and repairs in a timely manner with professional quality, estimating parts, materials and labor will also be practiced. (Prerequisites: GTRB 1440, GTRB 1445, GTRB 1450, GTRB 1455) (3 credits: 0 lecture/3 lab) GTRB2402 Guitar Repair Shop This course covers more advanced fretted instrument repairs such as neck and headstock crack, top, back, side, and brace crack repairs, splines, patches, fretwork on non-adjustable necks, and neck resets. Bridge plate removal and techniques for flattening acoustic tops will also be discussed. Completing basic set ups and repairs in a timely manner with professional quality, estimating parts, materials and labor will also be practiced. (Prerequisites: GTRB 1440, GTRB 1445, GTRB 1450, GTRB 1455) (4 credits: 1 lecture/3 lab) GTRB2410 Guitar Special Topics This class will be a 2-day workshop. It will provide an opportunity for 2nd year students to learn advanced techniques in repair, and or, building from one of the top professionals working in our field today. This will frequently be a past graduate and will also give the students a chance to learn from another source about the realities of going out into the workforce after graduation. (1 credit: 1 lecture/0 lab) GTRB2412 Guitar Special Topics II This class will be a 2-day workshop. It will provide an opportunity for 2nd year students to learn advanced techniques in repair, and or, building from one of the top professionals working in our field today. This will frequently be a past graduate and will also give the students a chance to learn from another source about the realities of going out into the workforce after graduation. (1 credit: 1 lecture/0 lab) GTRB2415 Computer Drafting for Guitar This course introduces Rhino 4.0 design software where students will design the outline for their instrument body, headstock, bridge and other design elements. Necessary drawings for templates and molds will also be created for use in GTRB 2420 using Rhino drafting software. (Prerequisites: GTRB 1440, GTRB 1445, GTRB 1450; Concurrent enrollment in GTRB 2420) (3 credits: 3 lecture/0 lab) GTRB2420 CNC for Guitar This course will focus on the use of a three-axis CNC router and Desk CNC CAM/controller software to aid in the creations of the 2d and 3d models created in GTRB2415. (Prerequisites: GTRB 1440, GTRB 1445, GTRB 1450; Concurrent enrollment in GTRB 2415) (3 credits: 1 lecture/2 lab) GTRB2425 Archtop Guitar/Mandolin Construction In this class the student will make a carved top and back archtop guitar or an A model mandolin. Prerequisites: GTRB1440, 1445, & 1450, concurrent enrollment in GTRB2415, & 2420 6 Cr (2 lect/pres, 4 lab, 0 other) GTRB2430 Advanced Guitar Construction In this course the student will build the guitar they have designed and made templates and molds for in GTRB 2410, 2415, & 2420. Time management and proglem solving will be crucial skills used and developed in this course. (Prerequisites: GTRB 1440, GTRB 1445, GTRB 1450, GTRB 2400, GTRB 2410, GTRB 2415 GTRB 2420; Concurrent enrollment in GTRB 2435) (8 credits: 0 lecture/8 lab) GTRB2432 Advanced Construction Project In this course the student will build the guitar they have designed and made templates and molds for in GTRB 2410, 2415, & 2420. Time management and proglem solving will be crucial skills used and developed in this course. (Prerequisites: GTRB 1440, GTRB 1445, GTRB 1450, GTRB 2400, GTRB 2410, GTRB 2415 GTRB 2420; Concurrent enrollment in GTRB 2435) (9 credits: 2 lecture/7 lab) GTRB2435 Advanced Guitar Finishing This course covers the use of new technology coatings such as waterborne, two-component and UV conversion finishes. Additional techniques using nitrocellulose lacquer will also be covered. Metallic finishes will also be used for applying gold top and colored metallic finishes. Touch up techniques will be practiced. Final sanding and polishing all types of film finishes will be practiced. Refinishing methods and materials will also be discussed. (Prerequisites: GTRB 1450, GTRB 2415, GTRB 2420, GTRB 2425; Concurrent enrollment in GTRB 2430 ) (3 credits: 1 lecture/2 lab) GTRB2440 Advanced Guitar Inlay This course focuses on inlay techniques used in guitarmaking. Students will design, cut, inlay, and engrave pearl using traditional methods, and apply their skills acquired in Computer Drafting for Guitar (GTRB 2415) and CNC for Guitar (GTRB 2420) to design inlays in Rhinoceros and cut and engrave on the CNC machine. (Prerequisites: GTRB 2415, GTRB 2420; Concurrent enrollment in GTRB 2430) (2 credits: 1 lecture/1 lab) GTRB2445 Archtop/Mandolin Construction II This is the Spring Semester continuation of GTRB2425. (Prerequisites: GTRB2425) (5 credits: 1 lecture/4 lab) Course Descriptions 135
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