Crow River Guitars

Finely crafted, handmade acoustic guitars

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