🎸 Making a Concert Guitar from Scratch | Handmade in Slovakia

🎸 Watch the complete process of building a concert classical guitar — from raw wood to the final performance. As a professional guitarist and teacher, I find immense joy in creating instruments by hand. This video shows the full journey of crafting a classical guitar in my workshop in Slovakia — using only traditional methods, hand tools, and simple jigs. 🪵 About the instrument: • Spruce top • Indian rosewood back and sides • Cedar neck • Ebony fingerboard 🙏 Special thanks to my mentors and friends who continue to inspire me: Mark Usherovich, Tobias Braun, Sergey Rusakov, Max Cuker, Anton Baranov, Maurizio Franz, and Karol Samuelčík. 🔗 All links (contact, guitars, updates): https://linktr.ee/duko.guitars 0:00 Intro 1:30 Preparing the Soundboard 2:19 Gluing the two halves 2:54 Planing the top 3:36 Inlaying a rosette 6:49 Splitting the brace wood 7:40 Sizing the braces 8:30 Thicknessing the soundboard 9:48 Gluing the braces and patches 13:20 Shaping the braces 14:50 Shaping the harmonic bars 15:56 Gluing the veneers to the headstock 19:37 Making a headstock 24:33 Making the String Slots 28:36 Shaping the foot-block 30:49 Carving the heel 33:15 Thicknessing of the sides 35:54 Card scraper sharpening 38:02 Side bending 41:40 Fitting the top 42:42 Cutting the sides 43:37 Assembling the body 44:09 Gluing the end-block 45:02 Gluing the "peones" 46:45 Arching the back with the old Spanish method 47:13 Shaping the back braces 48:05 Making the back 49:59 Closing the box 51:01 Cutting the channels 52:52 Gluing bindings and purflings 55:10 Fitting and gluing the back strip 56:36 Making the fretboard 59:56 Gluing the fingerboard 1:01:06 Shaping the neck 1:04:07 Fretting 1:06:21 Adding a seventh-fret indicator 1:07:18 Building the bridge 1:11:32 Gluing the bridge with hot hide glue 1:12:04 Shaping the nut and saddle 1:12:52 Sealing with shellac 1:14:21 Final Anton Baranov performs "An Malvina" on this guitar    • Anton Baranov performs "An Malvina" by Joh...   You can support my work here if you enjoy my content: https://buymeacoffee.com/stringsandsaws 📲 Instagram   / duko.guitars   🔹Facebook   / alex.dukhovitch   #ClassicalGuitar #Luthier #GuitarMaking #HandmadeGuitar #SpanishGuitar #GuitarBuild #GuitarLuthier #ClassicalGuitarist #ConcertGuitar #GuitarWorkshop #StringsAndSaws #AlexDuko