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Looks fine!

Thanks Wayne.

The cover is held by four small neodymium magnets, one of each in the tips of the cover with counterparts inside of the frame. To avoid damage of the side the cover has a thin layer of felt.

Hi - here's my latest project. It's a flamenca blanca which I built for my former guitar teacher. He's been playing it for a week now and i'm a little bit proud abot he likes this guitar very much. Scale: 650 mm Top: Engelmann-spruce Back and sides: cypress Fingerboard/bridge: ebony Neck: limba + si...

How does those capoes work? Is that fishing line that is connecting the leather to the wooden tuning peg? It's not fishing line, it's a g nylon string. The string with the leather strap ist wrapped around the neck and tightened with the tuning peg. The leather just prevents the string from cutting ...

Hi Edi, your work looks great. I really like the hurdy gurdy the most. I am wanting to build one and I got some plans recently, so I might have a couple questions for you if I get stuck. Also, very cool on the Spanish heel in the last post. I have never seen one at an angle like that. Nice job, and...

Nice instruments, Bob. Did You apply the hardened shellac with a brush or polish it with a bale?

Dave M wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 16, 2023 3:31 am

... I wanted to get away from a bought commercial one but didn't want to spend weeks creating a 'proper' one.

... and You can reduce the stock in Your waste wood box.

Greetings from my hobby workshop. I'm building a flamenca blanca for my former guitar teacher - quite traditional with cypress bottom and sides, spruce top, fretboard and bridge of ebony and wooden tuning pegs. Currently it's beeing polished with shellac.

Some detail information: Stringing 6 x Standard classical Guitar 6 x Drone bass strings from D - 'F 6 x Drone treble strings from e'' - c''' (I used nylon e-strings for each) The bass strings are part of a set for "Schrammel-Gitarre" (special guitar used in Austrian esp. Vienna folk music) Dimension...

Someone interested?
I did a little language exercise by translating the report about the construction of my first harp guitar into English.
It's a Google presentation and you can find it here:
Building my harp guitar

What sort of neck joint did you use? I am guessing it is a glued dovetail, with the back covering the end of the heel. Very interesting. I use bolt-on neck joints most of the time but I think I can imagine a way to fashion it with a bolted on heel, or to do a heel-less neck. Hi Mark, I used a spani...

I once heard a serious player of the hurdygurdy at a musical event and was blown away by how musical they actually be in the right hands. They don't need to be the drone things that you so often hear. I wondered if you play it at all? I'm not a hurdy gurdy player and i built that gurdy for a builde...

Some interesting work there Edi. I'm glad to see someone else building cutaway nylon strings. You have obviously thought through that curve across the centreline into the Florentine cutaway - vey interesting. You obviously love designing and problem solving. I am interested in the harp guitars. And...

Hi, I'm Edi from Bavaria (Germany). I've been hobby guitar maker for about ten years now and I found this forum on a web research about falcate bracing. My interest lies in building stringed instruments of all kinds and sizes just for fun, from ukulele to harp guitar and sharing ideas and skills wit...