Introduction

I've always been interested in wood and making something out of it. When I was younger I've been building a wood whistles and different decorative wooden objects. As I grow older I started to be more and more interested in guitars. It started by buying a broken guitar on a huge resale. I bought the guitar and repaired it at home. Now couple of years later I realize that so much could go wrong during that repair process (where I used couple of book to clamp and glue the guitar's bridge :-).

During my study years I've followed some classical guitar lesson and I've learned to play some nice melodies. After graduating (Msc. in Electrical Engineering), I found a guitar building course close to Eindhoven. This is where I built my first guitar.

During this course, focus is mainly on guitar construction and not that much on guitar sound. I had a great time and because somehow I planted in my head that I will only build one guitar at the course and the rest by my own, I stopped with the course and I started to build the guitars on my own. At least that was the idea, however before being able to build one guitar myself I had to make several tools/molds and some other preparations. At some point I decided to worked part time (80% for two years) where I was able for one day to work on guitar building and guitar sound theory. This was cruicial for the quality of my guitars now a days, below I will explain why. Usually I'm working couple of hours per week on my instruments.

Guitar Design

Guitar design covers different aspects, visual (artistic) design, mechanical design (related to guitar sound) and playability. Mechanical design aspects as playability are probably most important, however good looking guitar is always interesting and fun.

Visual design

Concerning visual design there are several possibilities on the guitar to express your artistic self. Starting from head stock, neck, guitar heel (cap), bindings, inlays, rosette, etc. I've this great urge to give each instrument different character.This is also reason why I never build exactly same looking instrument. Only for classical guitar it seems that I'm slowly converging towards a same head design. Below there are some examples of visual designs. Also (right side) I show making of my latest rossette for classical guitar. This rosette is made from walnut/maple combination, while guitar bindings (purflings) are matching part of the rosette.

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Wood

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Books

Several books are available on the market that helped me to gain more understanding about construction, wood choice and sound.

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