Another video, continuation of the previous ones. There might be about 10 in total once we get the large video cut up into manageable pieces.
Tag Archives: luthery
20th fret
I usually only make things like a 20th fret, extra strings or weird scale lengths if I am copying an existing instrument but here is a just-finished 20 fret on a standard concert guitar. I tried to make the fretboard extension as aesthetically pleasing as possible, have a look. I used circles of a specific radius to trace the contours and I think it shows. You can compare it to the solutions proposed by others.
M. Kohno 1999
M. Aracama 2011
F. Santiago 2011
R. Moreno 2003
F. Sheppard 2009
Arias 1900
T. Humphrey 1990
Preparing the sides for the back
Another video from 2006. This is a flamenca blanca which I think must have gone to Guitar Salon International.
Video with no sound
I know, we had some trouble getting this one uploaded, couldn’t edit and now we can’t even put music to it. It’s from a longer video so I will be publishing more excerpts from that.
Short workshop in Finland – 2006
The Tampere Guitar Festival is coming up again in June and I like to remember my experience there in 2006. I was invited to do a weeklong workshop on guitar-making in Granada. 
The experience and the people were great. In this photo you can see all of the teachers: Aliéksey Vianna, myself, Àlex Garrobé, Lorenzo Micheli and Enrico Bronzi. I guess it is obvious what they were teaching. 
Midnight canoe rides were fun too with some great sunsets. My students were guitar-making students at the nearby Ikaalinen institute. For a few years the organizers hosted a luthier’s exhibition but I never participated. Actually I think they started that the year after I was there. The teachers and players invited to this event have always been top-notch and it has really become a reference festival.