Making First Classical Guitar

Congrats man,

That's one heckuva project to take on and complete! 
I've never come close to attempting such a thing, my hat's off to you.
I do jam with a chap that worked with Larrivee back in their Vancouver, BC days and went on to build and sell his own - mostly classicals.  I do have one of his early dreadnoughts and it is a great guitar.   I sold my Martin - it was just sitting on the rack.
With any luck, and a bit of time, your woods will season some and improve the sound.

Nice going!!
Jim

Building an Acoustic is on my "Bucket List"...... but to date I only have built electric guitars in both solid and chambered body types.  Frankly there is a lot of wiggle room in electrics in so far as what you can kind of get away with and still have a good sounding end product.  Acoustic is a horse of another color, where small variables can and do effect how the instrument will sound. 

Kudos for doing one, and I would expect you learned much in the process, refined some woodworking skills, and had fun doing so.
Still on my "List"......   

That should be a great experience, CG.

A local luthier here (builds amazing steel string acoustics with exotic tonewoods) took me through his process one Saturday morning at his shop, and it was extremely informative and enjoyable.

Here is an update. My friend who has made many guitars, and has the setup to made 4 guitars at the same time. During his visit  hr first used a Fiber Optic Scope to check construction and bracing and then measured the thickness of the top. What he finally said was the guitar was built correctly and since I used bone he suggested using either plastic or  tusk. He still  uses bone or ivory but he said he has to buy 10 to get one that is acceptable and he uses a high power microscope to check each piece. He said what is buys now is not the same quality as he bought five years ago. Some bone is actually walrus tusk being sold as something else. If that does not work to correct the sound than he does not know what else would work. Once I make these changes and if it corrects the sound, than I will email each that asked about pictures to them. It will take 2 to 3 days and I will buy both tusk and plastic and see which corrects the sound. He used the same strings I use so it should not help the try others strings.

CG ... sounds like you had an interesting visit.

Interesting that you mention the bone nut / bridge. I had a Larrivee steel string, which came with Tusq components. The luthier I know (Matthew Lunn @ Lunn Guitars) suggested replacing them with bone, to increase the brightness a bit, as well as increasing the sustain. He has an ethical source for camel bone, which apparently is more consistent than most, so that's what he used. It's very hard, and when he dropped a piece on his countertop it made a tinkling sound like porcelain or glass. It did exactly as he described.

Funny how a couple of little parts can make such a big difference.

Roger

Heck of a project.  As much as I enjoy wood working, that's a project I've never been tempted to undertake.  I was surprised about the plastic too.  I wonder if it's the compensating B that makes it so much better.

One final update. After changing back to bone the one I built was built right. The real problem is the knowing what blank wood has the right tonal quality to start with from the beginning. The same would be true for any classical or acoustic guitar. So I wasted a lot of time except I have a good setup and if I try it again I will buy my blanks from someone who knows what good wood should sound like.

I assume the great way to understand the difference between the 2 kinds of guitars is to pick up and play them each, if no longer finished so already. There isn't any manner every person can accurately and comprehensively describe the variations in words.