Miguel Rodriguez Style Guitar - The Last Guitar of the Season

It is easy to create a mystique about guitar making. There must be something magical about a process that constructs a wooden box, stretches some strings across it, and persuades delectable sounds to come from it. Colin Cooper, The Classical Guitar Book , 2002 Back in January or February, I made the neck for this guitar. I jointed and glued the western red cedar top about the same time and installed the rosette. Some where in this blog are postings of when I made the three piece back and when I split out the braces for the top. I bent the sides last week. All this was done so I can assemble this guitar by Saturday, the last guitar of the season. I go back to my day job as a historic preservation carpenter on April 28th, after that I will continue to work on this guitar and three other guitars as I can make time. This guitar is braced in the manner that was used by Miguel Rodriguez,Sr. and his sons, Rafael and Miguel. Those of you familiar with Rodriguez guitars will no