Wilson Burnham Guitars

I do not know when the open wooden tool box came into general use . Roy Underhill, The Woodwright's Work Book , 1986 If you own copy of The New Traditional Woodworker , by Jim Tolpin, then perhaps you have constructed his workbench tote project. My workbench is always a mess and now that I am getting to the finishing stage for two classical guitars, I thought I would try to mend my ways and keep a tidy bench. A workbench tote is a start in the right direction. I held fairly close to the dimensions in Tolpin's book, but used some nice pine that was on hand (I think it is lodgepole pine, it's hard to find good ponderosa pine these days) for the sides and handle, with pine plywood for the bottom. A carpenter by trade, I decided to build this tote in the house carpenter tradition, nothing fancy, just 45 degree miters, a table saw cut groove for the plywood... ...glue and pin nails from a trim gun to hold everything together. The tote handle shape is a per

The bridge of a guitar as we know it today is a relatively modern invention consolidated by Torres, although he was not the inventor. Jose L. Romanillos, Antonio de Torres , 1995 Many people don't know how much work is involved in constructing a guitar bridge, I know for most classical guitarists it is simply an anchor point for the guitar's strings. I arch the bottom of the bridge to match the guitar sound board's doming, cut a channel for the saddle to sit in and I make a tie block for the strings. The tie block gets covered with a piece of mother of pearl, this protects the tie block from string wear and gives the guitar a bit of bling. Since I am making a fairly close copy of a Hernandez y Aguado bridge, the tie block is sloped towards the saddle slot, this was original done to increase the breaking angle of the strings over the bridge. This helps increase the overtones in the guitar. Compare that with a modern flamenco guitar bridge and you will see the st