19 meetings, beginning Sunday, Feb. 8, 2 – 5 PM

Build a dreadnought guitar patterned after the iconic Martin D-28. The design, first made in 1916 and named for the battleship HMS Dreadnought, has a bigger body and loud bass voice that set the standard for steel-string acoustic guitars throughout the 20th century.

This class repeats a highly successful one offered in early 2025. Students raved about the experience. “The class was awesome!” one student said. He praised the instructor, Neil Miller, as “a great teacher — knowledgeable about luthier fundamentals as well as general woodworking.” This student said he came away with a guitar that looks and sounds amazing. “But the journey is the real takeaway. We all made mistakes, and we all worked together to help each other fix them and move forward. It was a journey that took a significant amount of time, but the experience was amazing and very rewarding.”

Said another student: “As a moderately good woodworker, I figured that I could produce something that looked good hanging on a wall. But the instructor and the class helped me produce a guitar that also sounds great and is fun to play.”