Applying linings to guitar sides.

Acoustic guitar top bracing

 The completed top.

Soundboard bracing

This is a simple bracing pattern.  Two little wing braces will be added  later.

Installing a rosette

 Green abalone surrounded by black and white veneer strips.

Building the acoustic guitar body

 Bracing the back and the body sides in braces.











The top braces cut and laid out on the top.

Another picture of the completed back with braces.

Heel and tail block

 Tail block







Heel block rescued from a trash box.

A white cetacean

 I defer the inlay until later, as well as the finishing.  Maybe in the spring would be a good time for sanding, finishing, & inlaying.

This new guitar is Honduran rosewood with a spruce top.  The inlay will maybe be a white whale.

Four models

Four styles of guitars;
L-R

Small body steel string, 14 frets
Classical guitar, Ramirez style
dreadnaught cutaway, Alvarez style
Short scale flamenco with reduced upper bout.

Stringing up E1 & E6 to verify alignment of the neck to the body. Acoustic guitar

 A successful fitting.  This is also the first chance to hear what the instrument will sound like.

Shaping the steel string guitar neck

The bridge glued on

 The guitar now needs the neck to be shaped and frets installed.  Then, after the saddle and nut are cut and adjusted, and strings put on, the first notes can be played.