Hernandez Y Aguado construction drawing

These are the detailed, full size plans of guitars by famous makers. Each plan is carefully drawn and based on careful examination of the instrument involved. It contains all the information needed to build a reproduction. Scale lengths are all 650mm unless otherwise stated. Each plan is printed on three separate sheets of A2 paper (600 x 450 mm):

• Sheet one: Construction notes, rosette design, bridge, head, neck
• Sheet two: Soundboard and Strutting
• Sheet Three: Neck, Fingerboard, Side View.

Manuel Hernandez and Victoriano Aguado were one of the most successful guitar-making partnerships of the 20th century. They worked in Madrid, where they developed their own specific guitar designs that were very popular with players. Some musicians like their guitars precisely because they seem to lack a strong personality - this makes it easier for the player to put his or her own character into the music (unlike, for example, a Fleta, which sometimes seems to sound like a Fleta, no matter who plays it). These makers used different strutting designs, and the plans available here include two different designs; the first uses five fan struts and closing rods; the second uses six fan struts, two closing bars and a long diagonal strut running across the treble side of the soundboard, to increase volume and clarity.