1 • Fundamental

This is where people with little or no woodworking experience can learn the basics of hand tool work while building a guitar from previously prepared materials.  Tops, backs, and sides are thicknessed and  fingerboards are slotted.  This is not a kit, however.  Students still need to bend their own sides, inlay their rosettes, and carve their necks.  They will also learn basic assembly procedures, brace carving and top voicing, binding, fretting, finishing (not lacquer), and set up.  They come away with either a dreadnaught or a OM size steel string guitar.

18 weeks of instruction, 3 hours per week. 

Next class begins November 2010
Cost is $1950 plus materials (approximately $425).

2 • Intermediate

This class is for people who have some basic woodworking knowledge (with permission of the instructor) or for those who have completed the fundamental level.  In addition to everything in the Fundamental Level, students perform some additional millwork and joinery (eg. joining book matched tops and backs) and the installation of wood binding and purfling.  Students build a Hauser style classical guitar.

22 weeks of instruction, 3 hours per week.
Intermediate Steel String Class begins November 2010
Cost is $2000 plus materials (app. $425).

3 • Advanced

This is for those who have completed the intermediate level.  It is self directed and designed in coordination with the instructor.   Instruments other than guitars ( eg. mandolins, basses, banjos, harps, etc.) can be built, and custom designs are encouraged. 

Costs and times are similarly customized.

• Enrollment for ALL levels •

Because of the limited class size (6 students) classes tend to fill early.  Reserving a space in the next available class requires a $200 non-refundable deposit. 

Deposit is credited toward tuition.