Gourlay Guitars

I had originally planned on building a case to house my FE24 Torres replica, but... I was still so bummed by the router disaster that I...

Having recently completed two Torres replicas...each with its own wooden coffin case, I've become inspired to build more. This time I am...

All done. Finished. French polished, strung up...and ready to sell! I have referred to this guitar as my tiny Torres replica. It is...

Making this guitar was always about building the case...and that has now been completed. Building a couple of wooden coffin cases has...

I have gotten a lot completed since my last post. The back is glued on, bindings bent and installed, fretboard and neck completed,...

The end block, heel and Spanish foot, and the Spanish cedar kerfed linings for the back were all sanded to a 28ft radius. The end block...

After profiling all of the top braces and harmonic bars and cleaning up the side profiles of the heel, it was on to bending the sides and...

Having never inspected the original SE77, upon which this instrument is based, I relied on the bracing diagrams of the nearly identical...

Using my shooting board and jointing plane to create a perfect join, I glued together the two halves of a set of European spruce and...

Having recently completed a replica of an 1852 Torres for which I also built a wooden "coffin case", I was inspired to consider making...