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This is something I've wanted to do for years and the opportunity finally came up. There is an organization in Southern California called the Stringed Instrument Makers of Southern California and they give classes annually on guitar building. One for steel string and one for classical. The classes are very small and ran this year from January to May. My guitar is quartersawn maple with East Indian Rosewood/maple bindings and purflings. Being my first it has its share of "warts", but I am very happy with it and it is the guitar I now play every day.

Can't wait to start #2!

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Nice job on the purfling. Nice rosette too.

I took one semester of the class when they were at Orange
Coast College back around 1998.
 

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that's beautiful! how does it sound?
 

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Triviasteve: It is the best sounding guitar ever made on planet earth! Of course that's my opinion, but fwiw I think it sounds pretty good. It's built on a Romanillos plan, and his guitars did sound pretty good.

Loren: I wonder if we were in the same class at OCC. After one semester I had only joined the top and back and installed the rosette! It was tough to compete with 40 other people for the ONE bandsaw!
 

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Very beautiful work. Don't get a lot of luthiers around here.
 

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Better than I could ever think of building! An outstanding job!
 

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Outstanding workmanship and a real beauty too.
 

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Very nice! Building one is on my to-do list. Thanks for sharing!
 

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Wow very nice guitar and I imagine it sounds as good as it looks…Perfect. You did an awesome job and I hope we get to see #2 when you make it….Well done.
 

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As a player myself, a guitar is definitely on my woodworking bucket list. You did a fantastic job with this one. I'd love to hear it.
 

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Perhaps we were…. all I got done was making that stupid mold,
joining the top and inlaying the rosette. I remember the waiting
list to use the side benders was about a semester long.

I went home the summer after and built the guitar on my own,
using a hot pipe to do the bending and hollow forms I made
myself to use in a go-bar deck. After the first guitar I used
an adjustable workboard with sections of round closet
rod with hanger bolts in them.
 

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Great job on that guitar. it is beautiful and so detailed!!

Cheers, JIm
 

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nice work SD > a bold move to begin & complete an acoustic. I've build a few solid body's but nothing acoustic yet.
http://www.kinal.com/
>> this is the luthier that got me interested up in these parts - works of art
 

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Wow, those are some really nice guitars! Maybe someday I'll try an electric. BTW, mine is actually a classical guitar. Thanks for the kind words.
 

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Great job
 

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Really outstanding work. The attention to detail is great, especially with those inlays/perflings.
 

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That looks like outstanding work! That looks like a 22 fret if I'm not mistaken?

I make my living performing and teaching classical guitar. I would love to get my hands on that to play it. That's just my GAS (Guitar aquisition syndrome) kicking in. Looks like beautiful work.

I would like to build one some time in the future. However, I don't think anything I could build would even come close to my Thomas Fredholm guitar.
 

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i don't see any warts in the pictures. that looks beautiful!
 

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Beautiful acoustic guitar and my favorite sounding instrument. Very nice project!
 

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Kaleb: Actually it's a 19 fret. I think I now have a similar syndrome GBS, guitar building syndrome!

Bentwood: Thank you! It is a classical or nylon string as most people refer to it.
 
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