If you are interested in building your own custom guitar, the best place to start is with a great set of guitar plans that is detailed, shows you all the detail you required, well dimensioned and illustrated and very very accurate. Available as PDF downloads in both metric and decimal inches on the same plans. We have a great variety of guitar shapes, bracing patterns, guitar jig plans and lots more.
Installing Guitar Linings: If you haven’t already done so, be sure to read the articles Types of Guitar Linings and Making Guitar Linings. Installing the guitar linings is really the easiest part of the whole lining process. If you have done your job in making high quality lining, this section will be a breeze for [...]
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 [...]
Thickness Sand or Plane Your Guitar Plates Source: Wood Preparation One of the harder operations in guitar making is getting the top plate and back/side sets to a consistent thickness. If you posses either a good thickness planer and or a thickness sander, you are all set and you need not even be concerned with [...]
Go Board Clamping Tool Jig One of the guitar specialty tools you should have to do without. Have you ever heard of a “Go-Board“? That is the slang term for a great jig or specialized guitar making tool that will quickly and efficiently let you glue the braces on your top and back plates. If [...]
If you have been around the acoustic guitar community for very long you have no doubt heard of scalloped bracing. Brace scalloping is usually a topic of lively discussion between luthiers. Some swear by it and some swear at it. Personally I fee that it lends itself to producing a fine-sounding instrument. Brace Scalloping – [...]
Kasha/Schneider Fan Bracing Diagram Source: Guitar Plans The Post Modern Classical Guitar – The Kasha/Schneider Bracing: So for a long time many luthiers stagnated on one of the variations of bracing that existed. Sure they experimented, but usually this meant moving the fan bracing around or trying different patterns based on discoveries of Torres, Ramirez, [...]
Ramirez Fan Bracing Diagram Source: Guitar Plans // Ultimate Guitar OnLine on Facebook The Modern Classical Guitar – The Ramirez Brothers: After Antonio de Torres died in 1892 he had left no pupils or immediate successors in the guitar making business. He did, however make Madrid, Spain the Mecca of classical guitar construction. From the [...]
Torres Fan Bracing Diagram Source: Guitar Plans // Ultimate Guitar OnLine on Facebook The Modern Classical Guitar: While there were many forms of the guitar that preceded his fine work, Spaniard Antonio de Torres is noted for making the most advances on the classical guitar and the results of his work are largely represented in [...]
