Hancock Guitar Making Course by Dane and Sean Hancock. Build your own guitar during a two week guitar making course located in Mount Tamborine, Queensland.

About the Course

Have you ever wanted to build your own high-quality acoustic guitar?

Hancock Guitars are now offering a two week intensive guitar making course held in relaxing Mount Tamborine in the Gold Coast Hinterland. During this time participants will gain knowledge of all the techniques of building an acoustic guitar while constructing their own instrument.

We personally conduct the course, providing instruction, advice and hands-on demonstration. We teach participants both the theory and practical techniques of building an acoustic guitar.

We cover all aspects of acoustic guitar construction during the course. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive grounding in luthiery to participants and demystify certain techniques which normally take years to understand.

One key advantage of our course is that we allow a maximum of 6 students per course, this ensures a large amount of hands on instruction resulting in the very high-quality finished instruments for all students.

There are no prerequisites for participants. Although some woodworking experience is an advantage none is required. A set of tools is provided for students to work with though we do advise students to have some hand tools which are frequently used.

The course covers the following curriculum -

o Side bending

o Top and back joining

o Rosette inlay

o Fretboard inlay

o Fretting

o Top and back bracing

o Full body assembly

o Neck shaping

o Neck setting

o Purfling and binding

o Top and back tuning