The traditional Spanish hand-crafted guitar building method at Alhambra
The traditional Spanish approach to classical guitar building centres around making the neck a structural starting point for the instrument.
This approach means the guitars last: guitars made by Torres ind the 19th century are still being played after more than 150 years.
This tradtional method is typically associated with hand-crafted instruments, depending on the skills of the craftsman-luthier and taking considerably more time than the alternative approach which has the neck and the body as two distinct sub-components.
The benefit however is a a higher guitar of much greater quality.
The pictures below coded red show the construction of a classical guitar and those coded black that of a steel string guitar at Alhambra.
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| Gluing the top to the neck | |
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| Gluing the sides to the top | |
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| The part completed guitar | |
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| Fitting the back | |
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| Gluing the edges | |
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