Filming at Martin Guitar in Nazareth, PA

In April, Craft in America filmed at the Custom Shop at C.F. Martin & Company in Nazareth, PA. We watched luthiers in the Custom Shop hand chisel necks to fit bodies, assemble bodies with hide glue, hammering frets into the necks, inserting perfling around the sound hole, and stringers play testing the guitars.

The Martin Guitar Company will be featured in the MUSIC episode of Craft in America, premiering November 20, 2015. (*check local listings)

Photos by Mark Markley.

C.F. Martin & Co factory. Mark Markley photograph
C.F. Martin & Company factory.
Martin Guitar Company
C.F. Martin & Company Custom Shop.
Mark Markley photograph
Clamping the neck to the body.

Chris Adamcik adjusts the body. Mark Markley photograph
Chris Adamcik adjusts the body.
Mark Markley photograph
Martin Guitar Company
Dale Eckhart shapes the bracing.

Martin 0-45, a Joan Baez parlor guitar. Mark Markley photograph
Martin 0-45 Joan Baez guitar.
Bart Buschi hammers the frets. Mark Markley photograph
Bart Buschi hammers the frets into the fingerboard.
Martin Guitar Company
Final tuning adjustments.

Stephen Kresge inserts the rosettes. Mark Markley photograph
Stephen Kresge inserts the rosettes.
Anette Pemberton works on the X bracing. Mark Markley photograph
Anette Pemberton works on the X bracing.