Dragonfly Guitars acoustic guitar-making course covers all aspects of the process from design to construction to finishing. In this eight week course you will design your own flat-top body shape, headstock shape and bridge. Then you will fabricate all the parts from scratch. This is not a kit-building course. Your guitar will incorporate purfling work, wood bindings and inlay. Make your own rosette and choose your woods. When your guitar is assembled you will spray a lacquer finish and buff it out. Build Your Guitar!
Tuition is $3500 and includes all materials except tuning machines, electronics and case. Contact me for scheduling and more information.
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- Routing Binding Channel
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- Routing neck mortise
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- Side Bender
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- Plate Joining
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- Back Plate Joining
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- Bandsaw Work
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- Jointing the Top
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- Sound hole work
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- Headstock Inlays
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- Building the Rosette
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- Inlaying Rosette
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- Rosettes
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- Rosette work
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- Sound hole work
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- Rosette work
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- Elaine’s First Rosette
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- Duncan’s Rosette
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- Luke’s Rosette
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- Micha’s Rosette
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- Rowan’s Rosette
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- Jennifer’s Rosette
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- Steve’s Rosette
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- Gluing Braces
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- Workshop
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- Shaping headstock
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- Sanding Braces
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- Butt strip installation
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- Assembly
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- Assembly
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- Cutting Neck Angle
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- Cutting Fret Slots
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- Position Markers
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- Alec’s Guitar
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- Neck carving
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- Neck Shaping
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- Headstock
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- Neck carving
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- binding taped
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- Bridge work
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- Scraping bindings
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- Scraping bindings
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- Routing saddle slot
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- Heel work
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- In progress
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- Spraying Laquer
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- Josh’s Headstock Inlay
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- Gabby’s Headstock
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- Elaines Headstock First Guitar
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- Steve’s Headstock
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- Clayton’s Headstock
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- Jeremy’s guitar
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- Luke’s Guitar
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- Back
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- Clayton’s Guitar
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- Back
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- Elaine’s Bridge
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- Jeremy’s Bridge
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- Rowan’s Bridge
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- Micha’s Bridge
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- Jennifer’s Bridge
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- Bridge Gluing
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- Elaine’s First Guitar
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- Rowan and His Dad’s Guitar
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- Elaine’s Second Guitar
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- Jennifer’s Guitar
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- Micha’s Guitar
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- Gabby’s Guitar
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- Josh’s Guitar
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- Steve’s Guitar
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- Judd
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- Elaine
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- Micah
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- Duncan
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- Derek
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- Clayton and Luke
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- Tyler
