When you make your first guitar, the important factors are cheapness and availability of the materials, as well as a clear sequence of actions, or so called “road map” of the process.

Below is the general plan of the work performed in this project. Excluding certain operations, entirely suitable for making any master classical guitar.

In this article we will try to highlight how to: cut the wood properly, carefully observe it and imagine parts of the guitar, properly orient the work pieces, glue them together and finally get the soundboard and the back ready.

It is very important to cut the guitar fan struts and braces for strictly radially, i.e. along the fibers (or grain) of the wood. The direction of wood grain can be clearly seen in two planes. The third plane is not visible, but can be determined by simple splitting.

In this article we will follow: bringing the side blanks to their width, since the width of existing single blank is not enough, step by step forming of the body and gluing the bindings. We will make not quite a classic, but today very popular, fingerboard lifting/supporting block.

We will cut the pine and oak beams for the neck, the reinforcing insert, the head and the head plate. The heel we will discuss in the next article.

We are going to make the neck out of the blanks, cut in a previous article, and prepare it for gluing with the body. It will be installed using the dovetail joint.

We install the neck into the body of the guitar. Bonding will be done with a special neck lifting/supporting block and groove. Many things remain behind the scene, but the goal is just to give a frame of woodworking on the classical guitar.

It is quite popular nowadays, to install a special support for the right hand of the player on the lower bout of the side. To add some modernity to our pine guitar, we will make such armrest out of oak, as well as another one, in parallel, out of rosewood with slightly different way of fixing.

Gallery of classical guitar made from pine and oak.