guitars ready for binding/purfling

Next step. Routing for the binding and purling.

gluing the tailpiece

Gluing the tail piece of guitar 88

Just a photo of me in the workshop

So here I am preparing guitar number 90 for the back.

my current bracing system

Well, here it is, the bracing system that I use now. Its my own.... Well you can say that there´s nothing new in it. Evereything is traditional and tryed before. But its not a copy. Thats why I call it my own. Its the bracing system that I prefer when it comes to pulsation and feel of the guitar. I like the response. It took me years to understand what the pro players meant when they talked about the feeling. I was always thinking about the sound as the basic point. Well, the sound has to be right, but the feel is more important. If the guitar feels right, then you play well and then YOU sound well. Its actually pretty simple. Its just the other way round as what most not so good players think.
The guitar is number 90.

El abanico

The 5 piece fan bracing also called "el abánico"
Now I have to shave the braces before gluing the trasversal bars and the closing struts

Back into the press, gluing the 5 braces of the abanico.

cutting the soundhole

Here you have my soundhole cutter. Its a small jig made out of transparent vinyl, some screws and epoxy. It works with a Dremmel (or copy). This is another homemade thing which has lasted all the guitars I´ve built.