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