Installing a wooden pick guard on an acoustic guitar is not that big of a challenge and it adds significantly to the aesthetic value of a guitar. This article guides you through the steps to make and install a beautiful wooden pick guard.

Tools and materials Required: Japanese Pull Saws Fine Dovetail Saw Wood Chisels Sandpaper 180, 120 Grit Titebond III Glue Wood Lining Blocks Small Hand Built Miter Box Acetone Wet Cloth Amazon.com Widgets Free-Floating Top Installation: Whether it is a Classical Guitar top or an Acoustic Guitar top, the free-floating top, as I call it, can [...]

Fitting the Acoustic Top: Learn how to expertly fit the most critical of guitar elements without introducing stress to the guitar. We will go through the necessary steps with you and list the tools and materials that are necessary to complete this job.

Guitar Bridge Plate Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Top The guitar bridge plate is a plate or a thin layer of wood, often a bit thicker than the top plate of the guitar. This plate offers additional structural support directly beneath the guitar bridge and give the top additional structural support to help distribute the [...]

Guitar Soundboard with Bracing Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Top Tools and Materials Required: Go Board Gluing Tool Titebond III Glue Fine-Toothed Japanese Pull Saw

Shaping Guitar Braces Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Top Tools & Materials Required: Wood Chisel Set Violin Finger Planes Lie-Nielsen Low Angle Block Plane Flat Sanding Stick Curved Sanding Stick Adhesive Sandpaper 220 Grit There are a couple of different approaches to gluing bracing to the plates of your guitar. Some luthiers’ glue the braces [...]

Guitar Back with Bracing Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Back Tools and Materials Required: Go Board Gluing Tool Titebond II or III for Domestic Hardwood 2-Part Epoxy for Exotic Hardwoods 1/2″ Chisel for Glue Cleanup Acetone for Epoxy Cleanup Rubber Gloves for Acetone Respirator for Acetone Cotton Cloth The biggest trick in bracing the Back [...]

StewMac Router Base Adapter Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Top For information on different types of rosettes that are typically used with guitars see the article Guitar Rosettes. Tools and Supplies Needed: Dremel Moto Tool 4000: Dremel Router Base Rosette Forms Titebond III Glue Duco Cement Portable Block Sander Plastic Tipped Hammer: r Plastic or [...]

Guitar Rosettes Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Top As for classical guitars, about the only ornamentation used in classical guitar construction is the rosette around the sound hole. This is a carry over from Antonio de Torres, when he made drastic strides to develop the modern classical guitar as we now know it . Classical Guitar [...]

Guitar Bracing Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Top The Purpose Of Guitar Plate Bracing Bracing for the Top Plate and the Back Plate can be almost as important selection as the tonewood itself. Bracing basically has two purposes in life: 1. Bracing Structural Quality: One of the bracings purposes is to protect the top or [...]