Guitar Back – East Indian Rosewood Source: Guitar Wood Selection Guitar Backs/Side sets offer the luthier even more option that do the guitar top plates. The reason for this is not only are guitars build from domestic hardwoods, even more often they are built from exotic hardwoods. For your convenience we have listed a number [...]

Guitar Back Center Purfling Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Back Classical Guitar Purfling As for the classical guitar, the center purfling strip is usually very conventional, it consists of a 3-part wood detail. the center portion of the wood matches the wood purfling around the guitar edges and that wood usually matches the back/side wood [...]

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 [...]

Guitar Building Handtools Source: Guitar Building Tools One of the first things that comes to mind from first time guitar makers is,what are the minimum tools that are required to make a guitar and what experience is required? The purchase of your tools is one of the most important decisions that you will make. Buying [...]