PLAYABLE 1/2 size Baroque Guitar based on Stradivari + Video

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I built a 1/2-sized baroque guitar based on a Stradivari form, possibly originally designed as a chittarino. I used standard baroque guitar strings from Pyramid, so the instrument sounds an octave higher than a full-size baroque guitar. The pegs are cheap Chinese violin pegs; I have no experience with bending the sides, so I decided to make them printable on a standard 200x200x180mm printer. For other parts, I used plans and instructions in the attached PDF file, but be aware that soundboard and back size don't match the plan! I made them slightly smaller, as the sides would otherwise be non-printable. The soundboard and back are made of plywood (1.5mm soundboard and 2mm back). The neck is random wood I had lying around; rose and fingerboard are beech-plywood; the bridge is solid beech; and the head is the same wood as the neck, laminated with two different plywoods separated by carbon fiber rods. Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baGkrIsjklA