A glass half full is one thing but this half-size guitar is 9/10ths full.
Guitar 006. Prototype.
Guitar 005. A new home for the sound hole?
As I was still building guitar 001, I was processing a ton of info through books and videos. One luthier that caught my attention was making guitars with the sound hole in other locations than the typical middle of the waist under the strings location. From the beginning, I've had the intent to make nylon…
On sale now at Big House Guitars……..
After a year and three months of obsessive learning, working and more learning....I have three guitars for sale in one of the coolest stores in Atlanta, Big House Guitars. My guitars are on the far right, two up top and one (steel string) below. On the top row of the guitar wall, mine are the…
Cigar-box Ukulele 001.
For fun, between guitars 004 and 005, I decided to build a ukulele into this cigar box I've had around the house for a while. It was fun, annoying, then fun, frustrating, infuriating, and then fun again. It took me two work days. Now that I know the process, I'll build a few more and…
Guitar 004. The Victorian.
I have agreed to a deal with a local guitar shop....
Making a Clazzical guitar “Kasha bridge.”
The bridge serves as a conduit to and distributes the strings tension onto the soundboard. I had my mind blown the first time I read it explained this way: the strings do not...
Slow down, finish faster.
I've spent more time than I care to remember fixing things in the process that I did in haste, overlooked, didn't consider, measured wrong, didn't set up correctly (like not checking to make sure the blade is square
Removing back from a classical, nylon string guitar.
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. Today I had to do something that never occurred to me I'd have to (but I'm sure there'll be more instances in the future). I removed the back from my current build, 004. There was a problem with the neck angle (current theory, but could…
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Hart’s Guitars and Luthier School.
This site is currently being built. But, I'm gonna go ahead and open up for the world to see. If you wait to have things perfect before sharing them, they end up collecting dust. I'll be making guitars and writing articles about the process. I'll also be hosting guitar building courses at Hart's Guitars where…
