My Romantic Guitar

MY ROMANTIC GUITAR SPECIFICATIONS

I build my guitar over the course of the month of May 2018 in La Herradura, Spain.
This was under the tutelage of master luthier Stephen Hill, who runs
The European Institute of Guitar Making.

INSPIRED BY TORRES / HILL ROMANTIC GUITARS

• String length 640mm

• Width at nut 52mm

• Sound hole diameter 82mm

• 12 Frets

• Five fan struts

• Upper bout: 240mm

• Waist: 205mm

• Lower bout: 320mm.

• Rotary geared tuning pegs

WOODS USED

• European Spruce top

• Cypress back and ribs

• Cedar neck

• Ebony fret board

• Madagascan Rosewood bridge

• Cocobolo head lamination

• Rosewood wedge on back

• Rosewood purflings and bindings

• Wenge neck reinforcement

THICKNESSES

• The soundboard thickness ranges from about 2.0mm in the middle to about 1.8mm at the edges.

• It gains in thickness at the fingerboard to about 2.4mm. The sides are in there region of 1.0mm.

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