July 29th 2013

I strung the guitar up tonight and was finally able to play it. As always it sound bed at first, but I set the action, and cleaned up the top of the saddle allowed the string to stretch a bit so they could stay in tune at least part way through a tune and it sounds good.

This guitar has a red spruce top, African Blackwood back and sides with Tasmanian Blackwood bindings. The bridge is some sort of rosewood. The ebay seller called it Brazilian but it is not. In any case it was a nice looking piece of wood and when carved came is just above 25 grams. I also made the bridge 12 hole.

I also need to trim the saddle. The way it is now I can raise or lower the action a bit by sliding the bridge.

I still need to polish the top, I am just waiting a few days to let the finish cure.

Here are a few pictures. I will post a video but will wait till the weekend to film it.

Aug 3rd 2013

I finally polished and properly setup my classical guitar. I had one funny issue when intonating the strings. The B string was playing way flat on the 12th fret. I was a bit nervous as I already had the string cutting near the top side of the saddle. I checked the saddle and the nut to make sure I did not have some weird change of angle back in the slot. Ultimately I changed the string with the same brand and it the intonation is right on. I will forget it ever happened. Here are only a few additional photos with the polished top and a link to the u-tube video. It sounds pretty good but I find playing up the neck it is a little more percussive than I would like, maybe it will open a bit, as it has just been set up. Red spruce is an odd top wood anyway for a classical. We will see what happens with time. Over all I am very happy with the results

A few final pictures.