Even if it doesn’t look like it from the outside of our Nashville facility, there’s plenty of creative activity happening in our classrooms right now as our acoustic and electric craft students work steadily toward the completion of their project guitars.
In just a few short months, the students have made great progress on their guitars, taking them from pieces of raw wood into near-finished instruments. Graduation is June 20, which means that they’re now in crunch time. Over the next few weeks, they’ll be putting in extra hours to make sure their guitars are completed on time, and look and play as professional as they can make them.
Here are a few recent shots of several of our students hard at work:
Shu Kawai lays out the tuner placement on his headstock before drilling the post holes. 
Shu Kawai sets the placement of tuners on his headstock before drilling post holes. 
Brand Edwards cuts fret slots on his neck using a milling machine. 
Using a milling machine, Brand Edwards cuts fret slots on his neck. 
Tiernan McKinney shapes the heel of his guitar’s neck. 
Leesa Owens scrapes her guitar’s binding to be flush with the soundboard. 
Luke Lindell fits the neck of his acoustic guitar. 
Luke Lindell fits the neck into the body of his acoustic guitar.