Gallery of "Book" builds

[Trevor Gore]

Here's another remarkable guitar from Leonard Augenstein:

... and I got locked out before I could correct the spelling of Leonhard's name!

[kiwigeo]

Here's another remarkable guitar from Leonard Augenstein:

... and I got locked out before I could correct the spelling of Leonhard's name!

Fixed.

[soundshooter]

Just finished a pair of sofa sweetheart couch cuddlers. 24.5 inch scale 13in across the lower bout. The chocolate ballerina is built from wood locally-sourced here in California redwood Walnut and desert ironwood. Sister stretch mark is a little bit more exotic ziricote bear claw engelmann spruce Honduran mahogany and Ebony fingerboard.

The design of the guitars uses the book as a stepping off point. The top bracing was designed to use a wingless bridge.

Interlocking radial bracing with bridge patch for pinned bridge

Cut out tapers to meet traditional shaped heel.

Wingless bridge Walnut carbon fiber reinforcement

Straight string pull open headstock and intonation at the nut as well as saddle

Ziricote back with side through binding treatment

Tapered body angle split equally across the front and back.

Elevated neck joint

Sound port side through binding and magnetically attached armrest