Yesterday I visisted the shop of a young luthier in Portland, Oregon, Peter Tsiorba. I took some photos that he could use on his web site. The following is a small selection of them. These were all taken with an ordinary digital camera, not a cell phone camera (like most of my photos).
There was both natural and electric light. In the darker areas of the shop I had to use a flash.
One side of Peter's workbench:
A few tools:
On one end of the shop are some unfinished guitar backs. The one on the right is rosewood, and would be used in a classical or flamenco "negra" guitar:
Another view of the bench, with Peter in the process of shaving off some wood prior to mounting one of the curved side pieces:
A guitar under construction, showing the bracing that will be under the top:
A view of another guitar top: 
A couple of tools and a few pieces of wood:
Here Peter is working on a rosewood side piece:
Guitars in various stages of development:
You can see many other interesting photos of guitars and tools at Peter's web site photo gallery. (Photos not taken by me!)
I currently play a traditional flamenco "blanca" guitar made by husband and wife luthiers John Shelton and Susan Farretta, both of whom used to be flamenco performers. Formerly of Portland, they relocated to west central Oregon where they now have a large rural shop space devoted to guitar-making.
I have known them for a number of years. Though not currently performing, John is still a hell of a guitar player, even though he says he isn't. He once said to me "your guitar should always be faster, better, and louder than you are." And believe me, the guitar I have meets all those criteria. Here you can see their new web site.
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I bet the sounds coming from these guitars was awful good.
I do wish i could play music.
I'm just glad guitars can't talk. Otherwise I would get a torrent of abuse from mine --
"What was that? You call that music?"
"Why don't you sell me to someone who can actually play?'
"Have you considered piano lessons?"
I'd love to be able to make beautiful things like that.
I've had the pleasure of seeing your beautiful Shelton-Farretta and hearing you play it and I suspect that your guitar would actually be saying things like: "Hey! That wasn't half bad!" and even the occasional "Hondo!"
My husband and I make miniatures as a hobby and recently we made a mini guitar shop - went all over Memphis looking at real guitar shops as research, and got to tour the Gibson factory as well as talk to a local luthier, who was real glad to talk to someone who wasn't a 13 year old boy wanting a guitar. I'd love to do a luthier's shop sometime but it would be awfully complicated to duplicate all those tools in miniature, so I think I'll just look at your pics and say how I love people who do cool stuff with cool stuff!
So beautifully done work the gives over and over.
Thanks so much fot this beautiful post.