Making a Classical Guitar. In this video you see the first 6 days of the course.
When we made part of the Neck
and the whole Rosette

Learn here three different ways to get the frequency of your guitar.
We are dealing here with a topic that is kind of a popular topic these days, I see many people talking about it, and I would also say a very controversial topic. Some people among guitarists and guitar makers, dealers … give it a lot of importance, others less and others even not at all.
And the question is : Is this correct? Does it make sense? Does it have that importance?

Sun Xiang is a guitar maker from China who has spent a total of one year learning traditional classical guitar making in a village called Cómpeta in the province of Malaga, Spain, with master guitar maker Daniele Chiesa. Madera interviewed him in Daniele's workshop and then we went to China and interviewed him in his own workshop.

We can see what are the reasons that made him want to come to Spain to learn, what he values most from his apprenticeship with Daniele and we also go a bit into his own construction process such as the design of the rosette which he has based on the book of Chinese philosophy ¨Book of Chen¨.

Daniele Chiesa, one of the best guitar makers in the world today, welcomes us to his workshop in the province of Malaga, Spain to give a detailed description of the new guitar he has made for MaderaGuitarras.com
In this very interesting interview, you will see the meticulous and precise work that Daniele does on his guitars. A tour through all the main parts of the guitar, top, back and sides, head, neck, fingerboard, bridge... and how he deals with them explaining to us his making process and his peculiar approach to the fascinating world of high-quality guitar-making. But the most important is in his own words "Developing your own vision and understanding and feeling the whole instrument and how everything works together".

There are two reasons in particular. One is that the playing effort is less. But another, perhaps more important, is that with these frets, the space between frets where the string sounds good producing a nice sound is bigger, giving you much more security. In this video I explain in detail about all this and you can also listen the guitar maker Paula Lazzarini talk about them and why she has used them in her latest elevated fingerboard guitar that she has made especially for MaderaGuitarras.com.

The great Spanish guitar maker Pablo Requena explains here in this video how he makes the head Nut on the classical guitar.
Apparently a piece that for many guitarists goes unnoticed but which is of great importance and which directly influences the playability of the instrument, and the avoidance of unwanted noises that annoy us guitarists so much.
As always, it is a process in which we have to pay a lot of attention to build it well and take into account many very important details in order to finally have an ideal set up in our guitars.

Lazzarini talks in this new Madera video about many aspects to take into account in the construction of guitars and therefore also in the correct choice of the guitar that the guitarist needs depending on his tastes and needs. Choice of woods, types of shapes for the neck, the 20th fret, aesthetic issues that make an instrument unique, the importance of the design of the head, the guitar as an open instrument in its evolution, the identity of the guitar maker, the search of the guitar maker for a sound with which he identifies himself... and much more.

Madera goes to the workshop of the guitar maker, musicologist and restorer from Granada, Aaron García. He is a specialist in the history of guitar making in our city of Granada, which is admirably rich and, in our opinion, largely unknown to the general public.
Here he talks about the great guitar makers, not only from Granada, but also from the history of the guitar. And he reviews in detail the most important evolutions that the guitar has undergone. In this way we have a clear idea of what have been the most important moments of the instrument and what is known about the people who created these innovations and evolutions and have made the traditional Spanish guitar the instrument as we know it today.