What a beautiful sound, and the guitar is also very beautiful.

🟥⬜️🟦 Thank you - it appears like your at a 30 deg slope to sound hole peak at string tail ends. so also how to ty the high 3 strings gbe on at the tuner head stock.

Stanley Yates did a good job on this arrangement.

Yyeahhh...you lost me at the super glue

Beautiful instrument!

Awesome Greg

Thank you for choosing such intriguing pieces of the repertoire to accompany the natural sound of your work and no talking. Fantastic work.

Couldn't you saturate the top with water instead of shellac and get the same effect ?

This works very well if the saddle slot is through-cut. I guess it's time to try that. Thanks.

Michael, I really enjoy your videos. Your observations about traditional fan strutting vs lattice are spot on. It is not a question to which there is one simple answer. Like everyone else, I have my own preferences. And I have found my own solutions to my unique musical tasks. One of the great concert players once told me in a private moment that his choice of guitar was in no small way a practical decision. He admitted his old instrument had qualities his current guitar didn’t have. But his choice was a matter also of convenience of knowing the sound was always going to be the same, no matter the condition of his nails and the acoustics of the recital hall. Thanks for documenting your work.

Gorgeous. I am transported.

I love the idea of Torres to Moya: - "It's like a beer bottle." - "Si, claro."

Nice work!!!!

This is an extremely helpful and informative video. Thanks for posting it! I realize that this is an older video and I hope that you will be able to respond. I make steel string acoustics and have made several double tops with nomex cores. They work pretty well but I am always trying to improve my guitars. Particularly with LMI out of business it is harder to get nomex, and frankly I haven't been thrilled with that product. That is why I've been contemplating using a balsa core. Your idea of 45 degree channels is great! That makes so much more sense than simply machining round holes. What I am wondering is where you source your balsa and is there anything special about it that I should know. In searching suppliers, I see that there are a number of different weights and types available as well as end grain. Have you done any experimenting and is there a particular type that has been better for you? Thanks in advance for any information.

I hope you have earbuds

hi,thank you for the nice video, but security seem not to be an issue for you!!!

Where can I buy a saddle like this?

So you made very fine lattice and then covered it with foaming expanding glue that will no doubt expand into all of those little spaces, and added glue to hold th other piece of wood on your “sandwich”. I’m not a luthier yet ( soon to be ) but I am Woodworker of many years. Seems to me you’ve just severely limited the top’s ability to vibrate, and have basically turned this into a “glue top”. I want to be wrong, so please instruct me.

Está versión para guitarra de Oriental del español Enrique Granados es una de las mejores y más bellas versiones que existen. Es maravillosa la interpretación del maestro Gary y la transcripción del maestro Stanley Yates es sublime, Gracias por este video maravilloso que reproduzco y reproduzco sin parar.

Thanks,perfect.

What are these comments 😭😭

I've been able to bypass hand sanding the rows of the tiles to thickness with a sanding disc on the drill press (like you do with the finished rosette). I make them from particle board about 2.5-3" diameter. The way I keep them from breaking even with the white end grain, is I glue down one of the rows off center to a workboard and use it as a fence (it obviously sands to whatever thickness you need). The spinning disc pushes them up against the fence and you put them in half way, pull it through then turn them around. Less than an hour compared to many hours doing them by hand. Thanks for teaching me your method of making and setting in rosettes!

The problem with that is you cannot intone the saddle. You end up playing a guitar that is out of tune as you move up and down the fret board. There is a huge difference. I have guitars with the saddle adjusted on each string and on the nut also. These are the only classical guitars I have ever owned that play in tune up and down the fretboard.

incredible sounding guitar, my goodness. matt palmer's a great guitarist too, goes without saying.

I can’t get enough of this piece. Love it . ❤

Forget the "speed drill", toss the screwdriver, and get yourself a nut driver!! It's earth-shattering!! 🙃🙃

thanks for series of video you share, to which grit of sand paper we should polish the fretboard?

Very good be proud well done.

There's a tool used by motor mechanics to compress piston rings (imaginatively called a "piston ring compressor"). I think you might find it an ideal alternative to your hose clamps.

Always a pleasure watching your videos

Brillante.

Yeah, the spruce wins hands down. I was doing it blind. Wow.

Interesting what you say. La Leona was an experimental guitar according to Romanillos. Torres indeed never reproduced that design. His later 1850s and early 1860s guitars were better quality in Romanillos opinion. So I think you are right on. That bridge is exactly as I pictured it based on what I read. But again, Torres went with a saddle in later guitars exactly because you could adjust the action. I do love the sound of Torres guitars, even his later models, which supposedly didn’t have the best woods. Personally I go for the design he used for Tarrega’s guitar. What’s the typical air resonance of a Torres guitar? Do you know? Also, does the resonance scale start on C, the lowest, and go up from there?

Great sound, harmonics, sustain, projection, lovely finish details, wowwww. Bravíssimo master.

Amazing interpretation and beautiful intimate sound

Anyone know the name of the first piece by Mertz? I’d like to get the music. Thanks

Amazing playing and an amazing sounding guitar. Thank you.

I’d like one. Can you kinda make it look like one of those baroque guitars Julian Bream played?

Very good video. Thanks

Beautiful instrument and the sound, but it's way too expensive. There is a very small market for multistring guitars, so the prices should be respective. I can buy the same quality 10 or 11 string guitar, for around 3000 pounds.

Carissimo maestro , ho seguito con molta attenzione il tutto , ho da porle alcune domante , con questa tecnica si ottiene un maggior volume? o solamente una tenuta del suono maggiore ? quelle in nomex che conosco benissimo al mio orecchio sono penose , tanto da non considerarle nemmeno chitarre , ma androidi , quelle con rinforzo in carbonio rendono il suono plastico orrendo , ma le chitarre hanno bisogno piu volume seno in una saletta con 100 persone si rischia di non sentirla , questa tecnica alla fine a cosa mira , grazie per l eventuale risposta

Why not route directly in the top instead of gluing the balsa

I would take it off all my strings, and it’s a good time to clean and revive the fretboard. That is some thing that I do every time I change my strings and unless I am wrong it is a good time and may be the only time I can clean the headstock. I have my tuners off right now in (that’s what got me here.) the rollers on the previous machines lasted over 25 years. I welcome any advice or wisdom.

Beautiful.

Hi Michael,Don here from Hamilton NZ on my Wife's tablet (Susan) Iv'e always wondered how intonation could be done on a Classical guitar, so thankyou for your fine instruction

Excelente job

Hi Michael, thanks for sharing you knowledge and techniques! Can you make some comments regarding the tornavoz? What make you choose adding one to the guitar and what sort of effect you hear on the final sound?

It is a tedious job to make a good guitar...

Why the saddle is way too long?

Watching you work is relaxing. I need to save up for one of your guitars. :). You just sell on a website?