Serial Number 001

First Build/First Classical

Started build in May of 2022: completed on October 4, 2022

*edited on February 24, 2025

The construction of 001 and 002 took a long time: 001 taking approximately 5 months and 002 taking approximately 4 months. This is because of many reasons but one of those reasons were because I wanted to get these guitars as good as I can possibly get them. I was over-critiquing my work which made me spend more time on things than I should have.

I was told by Jeremy (my teacher) that the first two guitars you build are going to be shit. I tried to make that not the case scenario but there is a really big difference in going at it yourself and having somebody there to guide you and fix the mistakes that arises.

I eventually gave up on perfecting the two guitars and it helped a lot: I don’t think I would have ever finished either of them had I kept on nit picking everything.

Instead of staying with blue prints, I am trying to tweak some specs and see/hear the results. Right now, I am making the body heights different to see how much they change the sound and loudness of the guitar.

With 001, I went with a shorter body depth and did a double binding on the soundboard side of the guitar. I like how the extra binding gives the guitar a little more but doesn’t feel like it is over done. I personally don’t think a double binding on the bottom would have looked better but that is subjective

There are species of Rosewood that are more expensive than Indian Rosewood. Brazilian Rosewood prices are high now: it is highly sought after for its tonal qualities and that they are harder to come by – I believe there is a ban on cutting down Brazilian Rosewood trees.

Indian Rosewood was also used for the bridge a different Rosewood was used for the fingerboard. They aren’t too different in colour but similar enough. Sometimes when I have a bunch of Rosewood pieces together, it could be hard to tell them apart.

A standard rosette was used – nothing fancy. The soundboard has some bear claw in it but it’s hard to tell in the picture (below).

The neck is constructed of 3 pieces of Spanish Cedar and has laminations of Oak between the three pieces.

With being official production guitars, I had ordered branding stamps: the initial idea was that one would be for acoustic guitars and one for kit guitars – which I don’t expect to do a lot of to begin with. Eventually, I gave the customer the choice between the two logos – everybody has their own preference between the two but I am seeing people going with the second logo more now.

Depending on the wood used for the head plate veneer, some of the silver metallic wax gets into the open grains of the wood as seen below. I know it doesn’t look very professional but I do get some of the logos CNC routed now.

The neck had been taken off in December of 2022 and again in February of 2025 for a bit of touch up work. The strings have been changed from D’Addario Classic 27N to D’Addario Pro Arte EJ45

SPECS

Body Classical Ramirez

Scale 660mm

Top Sitka Spruce

Back Indian Rosewood

Sides Indian Rosewood

Neck Spanish Cedar/Oak veneers

Fingerboard Rosewood

Bridge Rosewood

Tuning Machines Mr. Power

Strings D’Addario Pro Arte EJ45