GallerIES & Media

Archive of past classical and steel string guitars, restorations, and the guitar making process.

Archive

Classical Guitars

Classical guitar on a black background.
Classical guitar headstock with tuners with a dark background.
Classical guitar with a spruce top on a black background.
A wooden acoustic guitar with a dark wood grain on the sides and a light brown body, resting against a black background.
Classical guitar with an arm bevel on a spruce top with a black background.
Close-up of a classical guitar headstock on black background.
Close-up of a wooden acoustic guitar showing the body and the decorative inlay near the sound hole.
Classical guitar top and bridge.
Myrtle wood classical guitar.
Burl wood rosette on a classical guitar.
Classical guitar rosette and bridge on a spruce top.
Classical handmade guitar bridge with inlay.
Cedar top classical guitar with black background
Cedar top classical guitar
Close-up of an acoustic guitar's bridge, strings, and saddle on a wooden body.
classical guitar from back.jpg
Handmade cedar top classical guitar
Spartan model with Walnut headstock
Spartan matte finished walnut guitar
custom rosette
gloss finish of classical guitar
Honduran rosewood Classical Guitar back
mosaic tile rosette
rosewood back of classical guitar
mosaic wave rosette
18 hole tieblock
Black Limba back and sides
custom classical guitar rosette
wave mosaic rosette in spruce
Honduran Rosewood guitar back
Cedar top student model "spartan" guitar
Spartan model cedar top
Cedar top Classical guitar
East Indian Rosewood back and sides
Binding detail on back of heel
Classical guitar rosette on Spruce
Honduran rosewood guitar back
binding and purfling detail on classical guitar

STEEL STRING GUITARS & MISC.

Archive

A steel string guitar with a maple arm bevel on inlaid head stock on black background.
Ukulele spruce top with mother of pearl rosette.
V joint of a guitar neck and headstock.
Steel string guitar with spruce top and handmade pick guard on a black background.
Close up of a steel string guitar rosette and pick guard.
Steel string guitar focusing on rosette and cutaway.
Steel String guitar body with cutaway on black background.
Ukulele with sound holes from wormholes in the wood.
Maple steel string guitar on a black background.
Steel string guitar top with a cutaway and custom inlaid rosette.
A steel string guitar with East Indian Rosewood on black background.
Flamed European Maple 00-12 Cutaway

CONSTRUCTION & DETAILS

Process

Guitar bracing on a classical guitar during construction.
Shaping guitar bracing with a small wooden plane with shavings.
Hand holding a piece of rosette log ready to be added to a rosette.
Lattice classical guitar bracing.
Classical guitar rosette after being scraped and leveled.
Mother of pearl guitar rosette after being scraped during the guitar's construction.
Classical guitar rosette in the mosaic style being inlaid into form.
Hand holding a piece of rosette to be inlaid into form.
Making guitar inlay from abalone shell.
Hand holding up a classical guitar bridge after being handmade.
Underside of a classical guitar top during construction showing the bracing and tone bars.
A piece of burl wood from which a guitar rosette will be cut out
A piece of burl wood with guitar rosette lines cut out of.
Burl inlay during the construction of classical guitar, unfinished ready for the sound hole to be cut out.
Burl inlay rosette process shot.
Burl rosette inlay process shot with black lines inlaid into.
Burl wood rosette complete after being scraped and leveled with shavings.
Burl wood rosette finished and waiting for the sound hole to be removed.

Listen and SEE

A selection of videos and recordings of Sipe Guitars.

Audio

Julia Florida- played on a Sipe Classical Guitar
Nate Brown-Barrios
Torija- played on a Sipe Classical Guitar
Nate Brown- Torroba
Sakura Variations- played on a Sipe Classical Guitar
Jared Jamias - Yuquijiro Yocoh
La Negra- played on a Sipe Classical Guitar
Nate Brown- Lauro