Blog Posts

Video Clips of New Cutaway Blanca

6/7/2019

Going out of tune due to new strings on brand new guitar

New Cutaway Flamenca Blanca Completed and Available

6/6/2019

Back and sides of Port Orford cedar, a close relative of cypress which makes excellent blancas. Soundboard Engelmann spruce. For more photos please go to http://edluthier.com/recently-completedavailable.html

Now Building A Cutaway Flamenca Blanca Guitar

5/11/2019

New Rosette Design and Compensated Saddle

5/4/2019

Please click on photos below to see larger and see Recently Completed page for videos and more photos of this guitar.

Rosette for New Cutaway Flamenca Blanca

3/22/2019

I might never have made a cutaway if no one had asked me to. But people keep asking for them, so I am building another one to have on hand. These photos show the progress of the rosette.

Custom Cutaway Flamenca Blanca with Abalone Shell Rosette

1/28/2019

Please click on the small photos to see larger.

Pultruded carbon-fiber reinforcement under the fingerboard precludes neck warping.

1/14/2019

Custom Cutaway Flamenca Blanca Currently Underway

1/8/2019

Click on the photos to see larger. Here we see the back lining being glued to the sides and the back braces being glued to the back.

A flamenca negra that I built in 2012--new and available

12/27/2018

The next guitar?

9/18/2018

Someone contacted me because they may be interested in an Ethan Deutsch flamenca negra guitar made with Dalbergia nigra back and sides, so I took these pictures to show possibilities with wood I have on hand. (Remember to click on each photo to see it larger.)