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Homegrown Guitars
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Neil Peterson and his sons share instructional videos with practical tips from the guitar shop. Watch as they document unique and creative guitar builds utilizing reclaimed materials.
For inquiries about custom builds email: homegrownguitarshop@gmail.com
For inquiries about custom builds email: homegrownguitarshop@gmail.com
Five Pianos turned into Guitars - Part 2
This video shows the dismantling of the old house piano from the legendary Longhorn Saloon in Bandera, Texas. We recycled the spruce soundboard of the piano into multiple guitar tops.
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Rival Guitars - Project Completed
Просмотров 8335 лет назад
This video shows the completed Rival Guitars double build. These guitars have matching cypress tops, and figured mesquite backs and sides. Background music: "Flashing Red and Blue Lights" by Hollin McKay
Jumbo Piano Guitar Build - Part 1
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.5 лет назад
This is the first video of our new custom Jumbo acoustic guitar build. This guitar will feature a recycled piano wood top, maple back and sides, mahogany neck, and ebony headstock veneer. Background music: "Bitter Half" by Hollin McKay
Five Pianos turned into Guitars - Part 1
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.6 лет назад
We have been getting quite the stockpile of donated non-playable pianos. In this video we start the dismantling of five recently donated pianos, and start harvesting guitar wood from the soundboards.
Rival Guitars Update: Trimming back overlay
Просмотров 4486 лет назад
Mesquite guitar backs can be brittle, so Neil demonstrates how to perform a "climb cut" with a router to avoid splitting when trimming the back overlay or cutting a binding channel. Warning: using this method does NOT avoid cat-fights however...
Carving Guitar Braces
Просмотров 5 тыс.6 лет назад
In this video, luthier Neil Peterson demonstrates how to carve guitar braces with small hand planes.
Rival Guitars - Part 1
Просмотров 4276 лет назад
This video is an introduction to Neil's custom double build project, the "Rival Guitars." These guitars were commissioned by Kenneth Rochat who supplied the woods for these guitars from his saw mill in Sabinal Texas. The tops are cypress and the backs and sides are heavily figured mesquite. These two guitars are for Kenneth's grandsons who attend The University of Texas and Texas A&M. Each guit...
Long Branch Cedar Guitar - Part 2
Просмотров 1,8 тыс.6 лет назад
This is the second video of the Long Branch Cedar Guitar build series. Landon starts to work on the "fun stuff." In this episode, he cuts out and sands the guitar top (salvaged from 100 year old piano wood), builds and inlays the beautiful book-matched juniper sound hole rosette, and starts on the top bracing.
Piano Guitars: The Backstory
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.6 лет назад
Neil Peterson and Hollin McKay discuss how the idea of building guitars out of wood from discarded pianos came about.
Musician Spotlight: Hollin McKay
Просмотров 7356 лет назад
Musician and Bandera, TX resident Hollin McKay joins us for this episode of Homegrown Guitars! A few years back Hollin actually worked in the Peterson Woodcrafts cabinet shop, and later inspired Neil to begin using piano soundboards to build guitar tops. In this video, Hollin talks about his custom Peterson guitar and performs his song "Lyla Jane." Background music: "Don't You Cry" from the alb...
Salvage Guitar - Part 1
Просмотров 7476 лет назад
In this video Garner introduces the "Salvage Guitar" build. This guitar is being made out of all reclaimed materials. Make sure to subscribe and get regular updates on the progress!
Shaping and slotting a guitar bridge
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.6 лет назад
Neil Peterson shows how he builds an acoustic guitar bridge. This video shows the process of cutting the bridge to the rough shape, sanding it to the final shape and adding the sanded bevels. It also shows Neil’s custom jig and method of using a router to cut the slot for the saddle.
Long Branch Cedar Guitar - Part 1
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.6 лет назад
In this video we take a cedar (juniper) log and turn it into a guitar! (Well, we at least start the process...) Credits: Intro music by Dave Kemp "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" written by Jimmy Bryant Performed by Bill Middleton and his band Bill Middleton - Vocals/Guitar Keith Lutz - Vocals/Guitar Kelly Luker - Telecaster Harvey Kagan - Bass Bill Allen - Drums
Fretting a guitar fretboard
Просмотров 7386 лет назад
Neil Peterson explains the process of cutting guitar frets and installing them into the fretboard.
Homegrown Guitars - Tool Profile: Scraper
Просмотров 5326 лет назад
The Scraper - one of the simplest yet coolest tools in guitar making. Watch luthier Neil Peterson explain how to "tune" a scraper for one of its many uses - in this case, for fine-tuning of the heel of a guitar neck.
Unplayable 1910 Fitzgerald Piano recycled into guitar tone wood
Просмотров 14 тыс.6 лет назад
Unplayable 1910 Fitzgerald Piano recycled into guitar tone wood
Gee how much is a piano sound board worth? Can I sell my Mendelssohn piano soundboard?
hey there, i know this says 5 years old on the video but you wouldnt happen to have keys for sale would you?
Excited to see this channel as it progresses!
We need more updates! Hope your family is well!
I've always wanted to do this!!! Good job.
Thanks for sharing this video, What is the difference of the V-braced top in a final guitar tone? Thank you!
sept 29 , its meant to be....if only i watched this a few days later i could have viewed it on the 29th! haha
Nice! I just got my mom's piano made into a super nice guitar by Neil....I highly recommend his guitars!!
Just think of how many vibrations werenmade on that soundboard .. pretty much a guitar with the wood already broke in
Do you purchase soundboards? I could be a source for ya.
Amazing and awesome
I like what you're doing with these pianos. The initial reaction is some bit of dismay over hacking apart an old instrument, but the fact of the matter is that they will ALL end up in the dump or the wood turned into a bar or a desk or firewood. I've been at the dump dropping off a load of trash and seen 4 pianos tossed off the back of a piano shop's truck. And not gently. My late Mom had a 1928 Baldwin baby grand, beautiful, and we could put $5.5K into it and have a $3500 piano. I know we'll spend $2K on storing it for years before we give it away. There are a bazillion of these old 1900-1910 uprights and 95% of them can't be made to work/play well for any reasonable amount of money. When you rip down the soundboards, do you try to cut on the old glue lines and do you care how many pieces are re-glued into the new guitar tops?
Very clever! The re-utilization of the soundboard is admirable, there is so little else salvageable out of an old piano. And there are zillions of them. And of course refurbing them as pianos is completely hopeless. My late Mom had a 1928 Baldwin baby grand (horizontal), beautiful carved walnut skirt that she loved. And there's nothing you can economically do with these things, we could put well over $5K into it and have something worth $3500...maybe. I am sure it will consume $2500 or more in storage fees by the time all the siblings croak. And it will end up busted up in a dump anyway.
I got about $20 scrap from a piano, and some wood I can use for speaker boxes. I found a double 3/4 inch piece of wood big enough for a subwoofer box baffle so I'll use that. You're right though, hard to find any use to a lot of it because it's all glued together already
I love this, this is doing something incredible, thanks for sharing
What happened to the rest of the videos?
Awesome videos. Is it hard to make a living as a luthier with all the overseas big names pumping out volume? Thanks
how old does the piano need to be? I take it newer ones have plywood mostly?
Age doesn’t really matter although we only take apart pianos in really bad shape. Almost all pianos have solid spruce sound boards no matter the age. I think only one of the many pianos we have disassembled has had a laminated sound board. The older ones are more likely to have desirable woods also in the heavy bracing or other cabinet parts.
@@garnerpeterson Cool, good to know, I appreciate it!
That is quite a great way to recycle a Piano. Yes that Piano was played by the great Ella Fitzgerald
You still building guitars out of pianos? I have a knabe. 1800s baby grand that I'm thinking about having this done with.
Yes we are! Just haven’t been making videos lately…it takes so much time to make the videos!
do you ever consider using the rest of the wood from the piano to make the back, sides, and neck?
Yes! There are usually bulky hardwood braces on the pianos (often ash or mahogany) that we use for necks. We have done a couple guitars with back and sides from the laminated cabinet parts when they had really cool veneers as well. This can be a little tricky when bending sides but can make great strong and acoustically nice sides and backs.
I have a good looking piano from 1913 we're going to convert into a bar. Perhaps I can get you the sound board if you're still doing this kind of work?
Cool! Where are you located?
I have a cedar top guitar. The tone is fabulous! but I don't know how anyone can afford one of yours...Kudos on Great skill and workmanship.
We have try it on x and v brasing let me know your opinion thanks
Try our Philippines guitar .we are using bamboo brasing bamboo is very flixible durable and the grain is straight.much flixible more volume cleaner tone. Pls try it you'll be surprised to the result .pls notify me to the result of bambo brasing pls do a video of it thank and more power to your vlog
Love this, such a great idea. Apart from the soundboards, what other parts are salvageable, and what can they be used for??
Thanks for the question! We use the spruce soundboard bracing to cut up into guitar bracing, we use the hardwood upright braces on the pianos themselves for guitar necks and tail blocks (often ash, mahogany or other hardwoods), we have also used the cabinet box parts for laminated sides and backs.
@@garnerpeterson thanks for that, i hadnt thought ofusing the bracing for necks. Good idea!
@@garnerpetersonwouldnt happen to have any piano keys for sale would ya?
Lovely!!
Your 100 year old piano has a soundboard which was probably about 200+ years old when installed
Will you be uploading part 3 of this build please........thank you.
Would y’all be able to build one in the twin cities, Minnesota? It would be nice to have guitars made from my grandmother’s piano some day. I don’t think I’d be shipping a whole piano out to ya. If you know anyone here, let me know. 🤣
For that first guitar I would have loved the back on the top instead.
Are you selling those guitars?
Yes. We sell these guitars. The ones featured in the videos have been sold or were custom builds for customers but we usually have a few completed guitars for sale and can do custom orders as well.
Beautiful pieces, can’t wait to see the guitar done! I’m building my first classical guitar myself and it is very important to see more experienced artisans work
I realise that this was a while ago but this is what I do, I make ac guitars from completely recycled materials. facebook.com/mchardyguitars/
LOVE that rosette !!! Beautiful, folks.
Good tips and good videography.
Just beautiful. Lovely pieces of art. I've especially enjoyed your piano reclamation clips. Had four freebies lined up over the weekend but they've still got my truck in the shop. There's a really good "feel" to y'all's operation that comes through in the videos.
Bruce Chumley thanks so much for the nice comment! We hope to upload some new videos soon. We have been so busy with guitar builds that it’s hard to keep up with filming and editing videos.
How thick is a guitar soundboard as compared to a piano soundboard?Do you have to adjust the thickness?
Yes you do. The piano soundboard is considerably thicker. They vary in thickness across the piano soundboard as well, so not a consistent thickness. We use a drum sander to sand them to the proper thickness.
A guitar soundboard is MUCH thinner. A piano soundboard is somewhere around 5/8" thick. Guitar topwood runs around 2-3mm - about 1/10" or so.
@@fenderstratguy so you sand all that material down?Any way to cut the board into two down its centre? And make two boards about 5mm thick?
@@samspianos I've never made a guitar out of a piano soundboard. But If I were making or buying a guitar, I would most certainly consider using aged piano tonewood. It's probably some of the best old, slow growth, dry, straight, tight-grained wood you'll find, and it's FREE!!
Oh..i didnt realize that the piano soundboard was that much thicker than a guitar soundboard.
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Haha! Glad you recognized it...Thanks for subscribing!
Love the guitar and Hollin.
Really enjoyed the video. Beautiful work.
Thank you - I want to hear more of your guitar's sounds!
Sweet!
Do you always bookmatch, or is it possible to have a full single piece for the top or the back?
Shaun Wilson we pretty much always bookmatch backs and sides. Usually bookmatch tops too, except when using the piano wood tops (usually the piano soundboard isn’t quite thick enough to bookmatch). Did recently use piano spruce on a ukulele and bookmatch s that.
Looks great - I love the idea. The question keeps coming up, how do your guitars sound? Can you do a simple picking and strumming video of 5 of them or so, perhaps compared to a Martin/Gibson/Taylor. It would be fun to see them blown out or at least a comparable test...
Shaun Wilson, we think they sound great 😉. We will try to get more videos up soon with some sound samples (been super busy and slacking on videos). In the meantime, There are two videos with professional musicians playing Peterson guitars on the channel: musician spotlight Holin McKay and the original video 1910 piano into guitars features Bill Middleton playing one of the piano guitars at a live show.
I'm working on getting a bandsaw and a few other tools, but I have a spruce soundboard in my garage now from a 1906 piano. Is it worth it to use the spruce, or are the strips too distracting (visually or audio wise) in comparison to buying a full traditional top online?
Shaun Wilson we like the aesthetic character of the recycled woods, but that is definitely a personal preference. Sound-wise each piece will be different, but we have harvested some really great sounding tops that have several glued up strips of spruce. You will just have to tap test it and sing how it rings once you get it to thickness.
Looks amazing - how do they sound?
Please show me the guitars - and close ups of the soundboards completed! I'm trying this myself at home and so excited about the potential!
Hey Shaun, a couple finished guitars are featured in a couple other videos on the channel. When I get a free minute I’ll email you some close up pics. We have sold several finished guitars with “piano” tops. Have 4 more in production right now.
Awesome work! I have a 1906 piano in my garage now. I've pulled much of it apart. My 7yr old has had a fun time (homeschooled) learning how a piano is actually built - amazing! He plays piano very well. But now we plan to build guitars from the piano. I've restored numerous vintage guitars and re-braced them to a more resonant and strong engineering than what was common in the late 1800's/early 1900's. All have come out well. So, it's time to build one from the ground up. We're excited and appreciate the encouragement from videos like yours. I thought I might be the first to think of re-purposing unwanted pianos for guitars...but apparently not! That's great - great minds think alike. I look forward to more from you! Look me up at soundrestoration.org if you care to see some of the stuff I've done. Thanks again for your inspiration!
Shaun Wilson thanks for the comment and good luck with your projects! It’s amazing how many old pianos just get thrown out. Let us know if you have any questions and I we will definitely check out your link.
I didn't know anyone else was doing this. But it makes sense - great minds think alike :) I'm pulling apart a 1906 right now. I haven't done a build with the soundboard spruce yet, but I'm noticing the strips are tightly glued together. Do you think that shows in the top - that it's not one piece? Does it matter once it's finished? I want to build a quality instrument. Yours sure look great!
The different strips will show, so you have to be okay with that. Pick sections that have the tightest/straightest grains. Also some of the piano soundboards are thick enough that you can resaw them and then at least you can have a bookmatched top