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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.






















Rosewood and Sitka OM Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt



Hand built walnut Parlor Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier.



Frank Sole, left, and Jay Rosenblatt


Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Detail of florentine cutaway and rope binding on aJay Rosenblatt Guitar

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



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





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

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



A moment to chat with master luthier John Monteleone

Pieces are arranged but not glued in yet



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

Kinloch Nelson playing a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar

Hand-built Acoustic Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

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



Geometric fingerboard inlay and rosette





Rosewood and Sitka OM Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt

Binding detail on Cutaway by Jay Rosenblatt

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

Guitar body spinning on radius dish

Maple and Lutz Spruce Acoustic Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt


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


Posing with a great guitar maker, Linda Manzer

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

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.


Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt


Interior detail of Mahogany florentine cutaway by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier



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


Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt





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

Top and back ready for assembly



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




The nut slot cut and fitted with a bone nut.



Curly maple and Sitka acoustic guitar by Jay Rosenblatt





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


Inside label














Kasha Classical Guitar by Jay Rosenblatt Luthier



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

The new headstock design on a Jay Rosenblatt Guitar

The bracing for the back was cut and installed

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

Jay Rosenblatt Guitars joining redwood soundboard







Assembled body. Cocobolo, what a beautiful wood



Bruce Ackerman checking out an acoustic.






Attaching sound hole brace


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