Short scale (613mm) flamenco negro

Construction is completed.  The instrument will remain unfinished during an initial break-in period.

Attaching the top of a steel string acoustic guitar

The top & sides are clamped onto the workboard ready to be attached.

Acoustic guitar bridge

the bridge

The bridge blank is laid on the body at the spot where it goes.  Looks OK.

Then lay it out and shape it.

Fretting the fingerboard

The frets are attached to the fingerboard, all except for the 1st and the 11th.  Index holes are drilled in these fret slots to hold the fingerboard in place during clamping.

Bracing on a cedar top for acoustic guitar

Front and back of the completed top.

Cedar top OM acoustic guitar bracing

The soundhole is reinforced by waste from the top board grain positioned perpendicular to the top orientation.

The X-brace design is a variation of the brilliant L'Arrivee design that solves the bubble behind the bridge and makes it easy to change the guitar from left-handed to right-handed with only a saddle slot recut and a new nut with no change in the top acoustics.