First Acoustic Guitar

Nice job!

I’ve not seen a glass truss rod cover and I like how you built up the heel, How does it sound and how does it play?

Guitar building is a serious woodworking challenge. Just think of how much you have learned that will be applied to your next guitar.

I think you will find a lot of interest on this site. Check out the blogs and you will see a few builds.

-- Nicky

Great job. I looked at some of your other instruments and it is apparent that you have a passion for building them and building them well. I admire you for your generosity to those less fortunate. I am sure that those instruments will change some lives for the better.

The one thing that I have come to appreciate about Lumberjocks is the wide variety of interests and talent of its members. We all benefit from every member’s contributions.

-- Lee~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

Thats a beauty! also congrats on the auction, well done.
Love the look of the headstock, nicely placed.

-- Doug...

Unusual but beautiful wood choices. As a player myself, making an acoustic guitar is definitely on my “bucket list”. I hope I can make one half as nice as this some day.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I too, have a guitar on my list of things I want to make, Very nice and inspiring. I also like that you do it for charity. Two thumbs up!

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This is a great looking guitar. I really want to get into instrument building / luthier work, maybe starting with solid body guitars and moving up to finer acoustic instruments. The inlay ring around the sound hole (?) is amazing… I have no idea how you would make something like that.

very impressed. Guitar making is on my list but any instrument making is extremely challenging. You did a great job and there is interest here, just not a lot of people bold enough to try and tackle a hollow body acoustic guitar! :)

What a wonderful guitar. If plays like it looks, it will sound great. Good prject. Keep up the good work. Also,
there are quite a number of luthiers on LJs.

-- Hersh from Port Angeles, WA - Gotta Complete That Project!

Nice Guitar, based on how great a job you did, I would’nt care how it sounds, LOL. Beautiful instrument.

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

With all those unusual woods, I’m curious how it plays.

Nicely done. I wouldn’t say there isn’t interest, it’s just a very specialized skill.

-- -- Rick M.

very nice guitar , would love to make my own guitar, is there any websites you can recommend that would help with design and construction?

-- Ireland, Galway .... fingers! "we dont sell them"

that is a beauty

I’ve spent the last few weeks learning about lutherie. My approach was scattershot but there is a wealth of information available on the web. I can’t point you to a specific website but I found many sources through youtube… watching/listening to people play then following links to their websites which often contain step by step project logs. By listening, you also get a sense if they have actually built a nice sounding guitar. In a nutshell I’ve learned that it is not difficult to make a decent sounding guitar if you have a little woodworking experience although I have yet to complete one. Where it becomes difficult I believe is making a guitar that will sound a certain way. Step one for me was neck building and that leads you to everything else.

-- -- Rick M.

Thats some nice work for a 1st time. I really like that fused glass truss rod cover. Nice touch.

Happy Building!

Philip

-- Philip, Minnesota, www.langguitars.com