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Grand Auditorium / Florentine cutaway steel-string acoustic guitar plans

Build your own Taylor-style Grand Auditorium guitar!

Jan 2022: v1.5 now includes side profiles!

Olson Guitars London is pleased to present a set of superbly detailed, professionally drawn full-scale plans for building a Taylor Grand Auditorium-style steel-string acoustic guitar, with or without a Florentine cutaway. Printed on four A0 (841x1189mm) sheets.

The 6-string Grand Auditorium has become the signature model in the Taylor line up and already a contemporary classic in guitar design. It marries the volume and size of a dreadnaught with the smaller and more curved body of an OM making it ideally suited to both strumming and fingerpicking. With these plans you can make your own Grand Auditorium style guitar with or without an elegant Florentine cutaway for a small fraction of the cost of a factory-made guitar!

UNIQUELY, plans from Olson Guitars London include a comprehensive set of full-scale profiles and patterns for making templates, moulds and jigs (see below for full details). These sets of shapes make fashioning component parts fast and accurate – and we provide you with TWO copies for cutting and reference purposes as standard!

THESE ARE SIMPLY THE MOST COMPRENSIVE, ACCURATE AND BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLANS AVAILABLE ANYWHERE. IF YOU’RE INVESTING YOUR TIME AND MONEY BUILDING AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR, START YOUR JOURNEY WITH PLANS THAT CAPTURE EVERY NUANCE OF YOUR DREAM!

N.B. Photos show standard and cutaway versions of the guitar built by Olson Guitars London:

Full-bodied version: Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) & East Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia)

Cutaway version: Englemann spruce (Picea engelmannii) & flamed English sycamore (Acer pseudoplantanus)

Professionally printed in B&W on four A0 sheets:

Sheet 1: Top and side views (x1)

Sheet 2: Bracing and Side profiles (x1)

Sheet 3: Templates (x2)

SHIPPING

Plans are shipped lightly folded* and boxed, in a Large Letter-sized packet (235x340x22mm). SEE PHOTO for example.

1^st Class Royal Mail shipping to UK mainland: £2.65

Worldwide, Royal Mail international tracked shipping: £12.50

*Rolled plans can be printed and shipped on demand at a cost of £10 to UK mainland destinations. For other destinations please enquire.

SHEET 1: Top and Side Views (x1)

·      Comprehensive lists of building materials including minimum dimension requirements

·      Comprehensive measurements (metric)

·      Top profile of guitar showing cutaway and underside soundboard bracing 

·      Fret positions for a 25.4” (645.2mm) scale-length fretboard

·      Side profile section through centreline of guitar, showing back arch and neck and head angles, neck heel and back bracing

·      Taylor-style headstock and truss-rod cover

·      Taylor-style bridge with compensated saddle and arched bridge pin holes

·      Alternative 3L/3R headstock design

·      Top and bottom block top and side profiles, including cutaway version

·      Through-soundhole adjustable, Martin-style truss rod illustrated

SHEET 2: Bracing and Side Profiles (x1)

·      Soundboard X-bracing patterns for standard and cutaway versions including reinforcements

·      Back bracing pattern

·      Alternative brace dimensions and scalloping guides

·      Side profile guide for pre-trimming before bending

·      Side ‘ruler’ for marking centres of the bouts and waist before bending

·      Cutaway side profile

SHEET 3: Templates (x2)

·      Half-body outer mould

·      Cutaway shape for converting symmetrical mould

·      Full-body template for marking top and back brace positions, including centre, soundhole, scale length lines and more

·      Half-body standard template with soundhole centre and scale length lines

·      Half-body Florentine cutaway template with soundhole centre and scale length lines

·      Neck side profile with 0 (nut) and 14th fret (neck to body join) lines and tenon/dovetail extension

·      Full-scale diagrams for constructing a blocked neck from a standard neck billet

·      Full-length fretboard with centreline and 14th (neck to body join) fret position markings and radiused end

·      Taylor-style headstock with truss-rod cover including tuning machine pilot hole positions and centreline

·      Taylor-style bridge with compensated saddle slot and arched bridge pins

·      Taylor-style pickguard

·      Alternative 3L/3R head design with pilot hole positions and centreline

·      Top block top profile with centreline for full-bodied version

·      Top block top profile with centreline for cutaway version

·      Top block side profile with bottom arch bevel line

·      Bottom block top profile with body curvature and centreline

·      Heel profile and cap templates with centrelines

·      2 alternative bridge backing plate designs with centrelines

·      Cutaway binding contours for pre-shaping binding before bending

·      Back arch template for jig making

·      Metric dimensions

Grand Auditorium Dimensions:

Scale length: 25.4”

Total length: 40.29” (1023.5mm)

Length of body: 19.76” (502mm)

Max width upper bout: 12.13” (308mm)

Max width lower bout: 16.02” (407mm)

Max depth: 4.92” (125mm)

Fretboard width at nut: 45mm

Fretboard width at neck to body join (14th fret): 58mm

Frets to body: 14

Total frets: 20

N.B. This listing is in no way associated with Taylor Guitars / Taylor-Listug Inc.