Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Tx for your support, guys I built zero guitar, at the moment, but my first piece of wood that I planed, I was 11 year old when I did it (so not perfectly the dimensions that my teacher required, too), and i built a sailboard with Bassam Mahogany veneers when I was 25y, so I don't start totally from ...

I know that lattice bracing can be very messy very quickly. And to reply to your question, as you guessed it, at the moment, I built exactly zero guitar. - It isn't a suffisant reason to not explore all solutions, including the lattice bracing, over all when a guitar can sound as delightfully as tho...

Hi, yes, you are right about the arched back. The guitar is quite heavy (2.4 Kg), so perhaps there is a Smallman style lattice, at least for the frame. But the guitar don't sound as a "classical" Smallman lattice. The tone is much deeper, as I can hear. Until now, I was looking at bracing in fan sty...

Hi, I am reading the CAGD&B book of Trevor Gore and Gerard Gilet, having in view to build a classical guitar. Recently hearing one of the last guitar built by Kim Lissarrague, I am curious about the bracing used by this guy. The back is laminated arched, it's said that the bracing is balsa + CF, in ...