Several drawings accompany the detailed description.
A router mounted in a carriage rides over template rails to cut the contours into the plates of an archtop instrument. Teeter's 1985 convention lecture tells all, then goes on to update his neck resetting procedure and his method of eliminating dead notes on the fretboard. Though Olsen and a few others began building flattop basses in the 1970s, in a real sense this article is the birth certificate of the instrument. The flattop bass is a flattop guitar on steroids, not to be confused with the bass viol. It is easily adjustable for intonation and uses shims to adjust the string height.