A classical guitar hand crafted for Ryan Walsh, a musician residing in Portland, OR by luthier Maxwell Sipe. This guitar is influenced by the guitars of Jose Romanillos and is made with european spruce wood and East indian rosewood.
Luthiery work in different stages of progress including pictures of a completed classical guitar, a classical guitar in the beginning stages of construction and a handmade ukulele also in the beginning in process of being built by luthier Maxwell Sipe.
Pictures of two completed classical guitars in contrasting styles. One is a matte finished guitar with simple ornamentation and Gilbert tuning machines and the other is french polished with more ornate purfling and binding with black chrome Gotoh tuners.
Pictures of two finished classical guitars that were constructed by Maxwell Sipe. One is a ziricote wood back and sides instrument with nickel plated Gotoh machines with black mother of pearl buttons and the other is an east indian rosewood guitar with a figured european spruce top.
Luthiery work in progress including some repair work on a vintage martin guitar with a broken headstock and pictures of two classical guitars under construction.
Pictures of rosette construction for classical guitar with dyed woods and pearwood used to make said rosette by Maxwell Sipe
Pictures of a guitar repair. or augmentation added to a romantic era guitar - a fingerboard extension to be exact by Max Sipe