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Crow River Guitars

Finely crafted, handmade acoustic guitars

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    • Larry Strate
    • Joe Speldrich
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Our Process

Click through the photo gallery below to see pictures from the most intricate aspects of the guitar-building process as we build a guitar for the North House Folk School.

  • Gluing a book match piece of Black Walnut
  • Sanding to thickness
  • Gluing the sides together
  • Gluing on the back stripe
  • Making the back braces
  • Gluing on the back braces
  • Gluing back to sides
  • Gluing back to sides
  • Cutting out sound port
  • Bending binding for sound port
  • Gluing top
  • Sharpening cutter for rosette
  • Cutting out rosette
  • Ready to cut out neck
  • Routing out for truss rod
  • Inlaying Rosette
  • head stock inlay
  • cut out inlay
  • flat sanding neck
  • cleaning frets

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About Us

Crow River Guitars is a boutique guitar-building workshop in Paynesville, Minnesota, specializing in high quality, handmade acoustic guitars from more than 65 exotic types of wood.

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