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Jay Rosenblatt
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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.
Bridge test fit prior to gluing on Parlor guitar © Jay Rosenblatt
The bracing for the back was cut and installed
Maple and Lutz Spruce Acoustic Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
The finished rosette. This will be inlaid to the guitar top. Additional binding strips will be added at installation.
Kinloch Nelson playing a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar
Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Bearclaw and Curly Maple acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Bridge being attached with hide glue on parlor guitar by © Jay Rosenblatt
Bruce Ackerman checking out an acoustic.
Top and back ready for assembly
Kasha Classical Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier
Rosewood and Sitka OM Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Pieces are arranged but not glued in yet
Detail of Neck/ body connection on a Jay Rosenblatt Cutaway model guitar
Maple leaf Guitar waiting for final buffing. Photo by finisher and Luthier Tony DiDomenico. © Jay Rosenblatt
Geometric fingerboard inlay and rosette
Hand built walnut Parlor Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier.
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.
Quilted Maple Parlor Guitar with hand toned amber stain and Nitro Cellulose lacquer. © Jay Rosenblatt
Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Binding detail on Cutaway by Jay Rosenblatt
Hand Carving the x braces and tone bars on a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar
Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Bearclaw and Curly Maple acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Baker Rorick, (right) creator of the Woodstock Luthiers Invitational and Jay Rosenblatt.
All pieces are laid out in the order they will be installed.
Frank Sole, left, and Jay Rosenblatt
The new headstock design on a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar
Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Hand-built Acoustic Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Attaching sound hole brace
Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Assembled body. Cocobolo, what a beautiful wood
Rosewood and Sitka OM Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
A moment to chat with master luthier John Monteleone
Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt
Detail of florentine cutaway and rope binding on aJay Rosenblatt Guitar
Posing with a great guitar maker, Linda Manzer
Exhibiting hand-built acoustics at Maplewoodstock. Photo; Michael Retiman
Jay Rosenblatt Guitars joining redwood soundboard
3/13/15 Completed Koa and Sitka Weissenborn Guitar by © Jay Rosenblatt 2015
Interior detail of Mahogany florentine cutaway by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier
Guitar body spinning on radius dish
Frank and Henry will be performing at The Woodstock Luthiers Invitational on Jay Rosenblatt Guitars
The nut slot cut and fitted with a bone nut.
The braces war carved, bridge plate installed and are ready to meet the instrument sides.
Inside label
Kinloch nelson performing at the Woodstock Luthiers Invitational. Photo © JAy Rosenblatt
