Building my own classical guitar

In April 2015 I decided I was going to build my own classical guitar. I started out with limited woodworking experience, little tool experience and no workshop. The work was mostly done in my garage and a spare bedroom at home in Asker, Norway. This is a video of my homemade guitar. The guitar was built according to old Spanish traditional methods and pretty much everything is done with hand tools. The video does not even begin to show how much sanding I have done during this project. I am so done with sanding!!! It took me 6 months to build the guitar during evenings, weekends and holidays About the guitar: The top is Engelman spruce The back, sides and bridge are Indian Rosewood The neck is Khaya, an african mahogany The fingerboard is Ebony It was made with lots of passion, love and lots of patience The accompanying music (except a couple of the videos of me playing) are my own compositions played on the guitar in the video. Over the last two mo
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