Once again we are coming to the end of another year. A lot has happened at O'Brien Guitars this year. I have prepared a little video that talks about the happenings at O'Brien Guitars in 2014. I wish you all a peaceful and happy holiday season and look forward to keeping everyone updated in 2015.

Recently I also launched my Online Cutaway Guitar Construction Course. It is now available via my website. This course is meant to be a supplement to my popular Online Acoustic Guitar Building Course. In it I show how to design and build the cutaway portion of a Venetian cutaway guitar. The entire course was filmed in High Definition and contains over and hour and forty five minutes of quality video instruction with all the ins and outs of Venetian cutaway guitar construction.

Learn about:

Cutaway design and radius
Heel block design
How to attach the sides to the block
Building molds and design
Bending the cutaway side
Kerfing installation in the cutaway area
Soundboard and back bracing design and layout
Binding the Venetian cutaway

Here is a sample lessons video

In 2014 I also launched the Online Electric Guitar Building Course with Mike Snider. Here is a video with some sample lessons.

It has never been easier to learn the art of cutaway guitar construction.

Happy Building!

Every few weeks I launch another video in my very popular Luthier Tips du Jour video series. Here is the latest one. If you didn't know, all of my videos are available via my website.

My classes for 2015 are quickly filling. I still have some classes available in October, November or December. Everything else is already reserved. If you can't come to my shop for a building class then my online courses are a very close second to actually being here with me in my shop.

If you are interested in learning to build guitars or just want
to see how I build my guitars then schedule a class with me.
If you are in need of a concert quality classical or steel string
guitar then let me know as I would love to build a guitar for you.

Thank you,