Here is an optional extra for a client. Arm rests are pretty popular these days, and can be great, but are not for everyone. I have even been known to retrofit to my guitars and other guitars on occasion. My style of rest is usually smoothly curved to a large radius, and long enough to accommodate a large variety of arm positions. In this case it is made from the same timber as the body, namely East Indian Rosewood. It gets put on the guitar around the same time as the fingerboard, before I radius the edgings.
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Like most Luthiers, I do some repair work on occasion. As a classical guitar specialist, most of my repairs are on nylon string guitars, but occasionally I see steel string or electric guitars. Here is an unusual guitar that needed some TLC. It's the first Classical Bass guitar I have had in the workshop, and it was having some issues with glue stability and strength in our local environment. It was originally made in Germany, possibly with fairly traditonal glues. The bridge had come off fairly cleanly thank goodness, and a number of back bars were loose, creating a rather nasty...
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