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

Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

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

Interior detail of Mahogany florentine cutaway by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier

Guitar body spinning on radius dish

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

Geometric fingerboard inlay and rosette

A moment to chat with master luthier John Monteleone

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

Hand built walnut Parlor Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier.

Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Kasha Classical Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier

Hand-built Acoustic Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Rosewood and Sitka OM Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

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

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

Inside label

Attaching sound hole brace

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.

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

Frank Sole, left, and Jay Rosenblatt

Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Posing with a great guitar maker, Linda Manzer