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“Red Rose” handbuilt guitar featuring a premimum Redwood soundboard with Rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, Honduran rosewood fingerboard and ebony bridge and headplate.


















Kasha Classical Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier


Hand built walnut Parlor Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier.




Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt



Frank Sole, left, and Jay Rosenblatt

The new headstock design on a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar


Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Top and back ready for assembly


Bridge being attached with hide glue on parlor guitar by © Jay Rosenblatt


Quilted Maple Parlor Guitar with hand toned amber stain and Nitro Cellulose lacquer. © Jay Rosenblatt


Detail of florentine cutaway and rope binding on aJay Rosenblatt Guitar


Frank and Henry will be performing at The Woodstock Luthiers Invitational on Jay Rosenblatt Guitars

Baker Rorick, (right) creator of the Woodstock Luthiers Invitational and Jay Rosenblatt.

3/13/15 Completed Koa and Sitka Weissenborn Guitar by © Jay Rosenblatt 2015

A moment to chat with master luthier John Monteleone


The bracing for the back was cut and installed


Hand Carving the x braces and tone bars on a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar


Attaching sound hole brace

Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Bearclaw and Curly Maple acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Hand-built Acoustic Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt




Jay Rosenblatt Guitars joining redwood soundboard



The nut slot cut and fitted with a bone nut.

Maple and Lutz Spruce Acoustic Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt






Guitar body spinning on radius dish




Maple leaf Guitar waiting for final buffing. Photo by finisher and Luthier Tony DiDomenico. © Jay Rosenblatt


Bruce Ackerman checking out an acoustic.




Exhibiting hand-built acoustics at Maplewoodstock. Photo; Michael Retiman



The braces war carved, bridge plate installed and are ready to meet the instrument sides.






Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt







Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Kinloch nelson performing at the Woodstock Luthiers Invitational. Photo © JAy Rosenblatt

Inside label



Pieces are arranged but not glued in yet




Kinloch Nelson playing a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar

Detail of Neck/ body connection on a Jay Rosenblatt Cutaway model guitar






Rosewood and Sitka OM Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt



Geometric fingerboard inlay and rosette

All pieces are laid out in the order they will be installed.



Interior detail of Mahogany florentine cutaway by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier


Rosewood and Sitka OM Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt



Binding detail on Cutaway by Jay Rosenblatt



Posing with a great guitar maker, Linda Manzer




Bridge test fit prior to gluing on Parlor guitar © Jay Rosenblatt








The finished rosette. This will be inlaid to the guitar top. Additional binding strips will be added at installation.

Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Bearclaw and Curly Maple acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt



Assembled body. Cocobolo, what a beautiful wood

To aid in the assembly of the tow plates an open ended form was constructed. The headsotck which attaches to the top, back and sides can be held in place as it is clamped to the body.

