“GUITAR MAKING COURSE MANUEL DE LA CHICA EGF”
1ST EDITION
Manuel Cáceres (1-22 Julio): El estilo de la escuela de Marcelo barbero y Arcángel Fernández
René Baarslag (23 Julio-13 Agosto) : El estilo de construcción de la escuela granadina
-Course intended for professionals-
-Requirements:
The students must provide:
-Their own solera, on which the instrument will be assembled.
-Their own guitar making hand tools (chisels, saws, hand planes, and any other considered necessary)
-All woods required for the project. Tuners, bones, frets...
Woods for the guitar must be pre-processed in the following manner:
-Sides must be bent with the final shape (no linings or tentellones glued) Sides thickness is to be decided by the student.
-Guitar top must have the rosette glued, cut to the shape of the plantilla, and thicknessed down to 2.8 mm, to be further thinned during the course. Bars or braces must not ne glued.
-The back must be thicknessed down to 2.6mm, center purfling glued in, and cut to the plantilla shape.
All wood for the internal structure of the guitar must be provided by the student.
Back bars must be long and thick enough to be further shaped during the course.
Side linings must be bent and ready to be glued.
For the bracing, the student must provide several piece with ample measurements to work with them during the course, as well as the necessary tools to thickness and shape them.
The student must provide wood for the soundhole reinforcement.
The student must provide the peones or tentellones, ready to be glued.
Neck:
The neck plank will have its particular head shape completely carved and finished and slots routed. Interior heel will be completed, but with extra material to be planed and shaped where it meets the back of the guitar.
Fingerboard must be thicknessed down to 7.5 mm.
The student will provide a rosewood bridge plank, as well as tie block frame, with string holes already drilled in it.
Other:
The student must provide binding and purfling of his/her choice, preferably simple in design.
Important Information:
This course is not aimed at beginners, it is an advanced training course. It is the student’s responsibility to be able to carry on with the necessary work by himself. The master will not necessarily work on each individual guitar, but will give indications to the students. If the guitar is not completed, or the student is not able to keep up with the work it is entirely the student’s responsibility.
The student is responsible for his own meals, lodging and travel expenses.
Working will be Monday to Sunday mornings, occasionally some evenings if necessary.
If a student enrolls in the course lacking the necessary skills to keep up with the work, it will be his own responsibility and the Master may not be able to give indications.
The Master guitar maker will sign each individual guitar together with the student.
Deadline: May 1st, 2019
Application:
A limited number of 12 places is available for each course. Places are awarded in order of registration.
Price: 3000 euros Vat included.
Course fees shall be paid in two instalments:
First half (1500 €) before May 1st, 2019. Via money transfer to the European Guitar Foundation account. This amount is non refundable.
Second half (1500€) before June 25, 2019.
Both amounts shall be transferred to the account below, specifying the student’s name and the concept “Alumno curso Manuel Cáceres” or “Alumno curso René Baarslag”.
Account number:
Fundación European Guitar Foundation
La Caixa
IBAN ES8521002290250200239441
SWIFT / BIC : CAIXESBBXXX