Penny Guitars

As promised here is a recording of the classical guitar. This was recorded direct into a computer microphone so the quality of the audio is not great but the guitar sounds pretty nice.

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Okay the classical guitar is finished, there will be more setting up to do after it has been played for a while. I do intend adding an audio file here so you can hear what it sounds like, just haven’t had the time to do the recording yet.

Any how, here it is…

The Penny Guitars decal is written with my pyro pen on the wood that was cut out for the sound hole. I just thought it was a nice touch to use the sound hole wood for something. It is backed with cotton to make it resist breaking.

The guitar came out pretty good, bearing in mind it is a jumbo sized classical guitar, the upper bout is almost as big as the lower bout. The action is as good as any standard steel string guitar. I wanted this guitar to stand out from the crowd and be rather unique and I think I have achieved that. notice that headstock is immediately after the nut, normally there would be at least half an inch before the machine heads and slots. This doesn’t impede in any way and it is still possible to fret the 6th string with the thumb at the first fret. Note the very unusual inlay on the fret board, this was the customers decision and I thought it would all wrong, it actually looks pretty damn cool.

I have never as much as ever held a classical guitar before so how it compares to standard classical guitars is not known. I will post comments from the owner if any are passed back to me.

In the picture above I have a single string fitted. The bridge is not glued down and basically I was just taking a look how it was going to go and if there were any bad problems. As is turned out everything was looking okay so I glued the bridge in place.

And that was all yesterday, I let the glue dry over night and first thing this morning I strung the guitar and made the nut and saddle. so now it is all together I need to get it setup properly and then rub it down lots more and wax it.

So here it is. It will probably take a good few days adjusting it and solving any minor problems and then I will start to make it look a bit flashy.