A New Double Top Classical Guitar

Engelmann spruce double top, wenge back and sides, elevated fretboard

I’m so busy it seems like I can’t get anything done.

After lunch today, I re-stacked some firewood so it would be easier to cover with a tarp, good thing I did, this afternoon’s snowstorm brought us four inches of snow in under two hours.

I’m very busy in the shop with the latest guitar. It is heavily based upon Andrés Segovia’s very famous 1912 Manuel Ramirez classical guitar, it has the same outline, same headstock crest and the rosette matches the original, and I am adding some modern touches, a double top and and elevated fretboard.

Here is what I have done so far.

The honeycomb Nomex being glued onto the top. I have a jig made from MDF to rout out the area in the lower bout and use an old Porter-Cable 3/4hp to remove the wood. The top underneath the the Nomex is only .06mm thick. To cut out the Nomex