pictures of different building stages

inner side of a rosewood-back with spruce braces and a cedro joint reinforcement





view of the inside of a steelstring guitar
heel with a wedgejoint






Glued together

Steelstring out of rosewood and sitka spruce








the edges ...
... are tied in place.





wood storage
a rosewood back brazilian rosewood, stored cedro for the neck spruce tops, stored







LA MEDITERRANÉENNE CLASSIQUE

built out of the wood of an old italian olive tree.

made/built in 2000/2001.

scale length 650mm
ebony fingerboard
spruce top
french polished

in its sound this beatiful wood is comparable to rose wood.







a short chapter from the book
`The poetry of wood´ 		...where the sides come together and the ornamental wooden bindings join up.

olive wood has a very lively grain.

   








The `classical composition´ of a classical guitar


spruce / rosewood (brazilian)

 here at its place
of birth/origin,
in my workshop.
scale length 650mm ebony fingerboard
french polished
machine heads/tuners: Gotoh

spruce top
and
brazilian rosewood







the heel in detail










the classical guitar `BLESSE´


spruce/amazonas rosewood
built in 2002
ebony fingerboard
scale length 650mm
machine heads/tuners: Gotoh








views of the instrument







classical guitar

 

built in 2001
spruce/indian rosewood
scale length 650mm
ebony fingerboard
french polished
machine heads/tuners: Gotoh

also available with cedar top.




 


WOLFGANG AMANN  -STEELSTRINGS-
the following pictures give you an insight
of my work on Steelstrings. 

on the right, tested by the magazine `Akustikgitarre´ 05/02
`La Mediterranéenne´, probably the first  Steelstring made out of olive wood. 

top: sitka spruce
body: olive wood
fingerboard: ebony, 24 frets,
scale length 650mm
machine heads/tuners: Kluson deluxe with ebony buttons

 







the plughead design of the
MEDITERRANÉENE








  • LA MEDITERRANÉENNE
cutaway using the spanish method side with B-Band-Pickup `New Frontier´









24th fret reaching over
the soundhole

olive back in four parts









STEELSTRING
CLASSICAL SIZE

a steelstring built using the
spanish method. the 14th fret
Liegt lies on the edge of the body. identical to
Identisch a classical body design of mine, apart from the diameter of the soundhole being bigger than that of the classical guitar.
 

top: sitka spruce
body: indian rosewood
fingerboard: ebony bound
nut width: 46mm
Shellackfinish
built in: 2001

by student/apprentice Jost von Huene
 







the head of the `classical size-steelstring´









Mandoline in shape of a shield

an instrument with a scale length of 360mm made out of flamed maple, spruce top, nut width 32mm, 19 frets, machine heads by Gotoh, includes a Shadow Piezzo Pickup with an endpinplug and a handmade tailpiece out of light aluminium.

Its sound and playability have often been honoured.