Thanks Kevin for the update. I'm retiring in 2 weeks, ( 40 + years as cabinet maker), if I lived closer I'd come over and help with your projects. 😂 Good luck
I would love to see a video on the set up of a guitar. Nut and bridge with intonation. Filing the nut. Setting string height. How you work the saddle at the same time. I have only built one guitar, now on to my second, and the set up is where I struggled the most. And it makes or breaks a guitar. I’ve learned a lot from your channel and always appreciate the sense of humour.
I apologize if you've already touched on these topics but I'll throw a few out there for you. I'm primarily a hand tool worker wanting to build my own instruments. I don't owner an electric thickness planer or drum sander. I think a video on how to thin sides without power tools would be informative to those of us without the funds to buy a drum sander. I see you have some hand tools on your shop wall. A video on when you might find each tool useful would be great! If you have any other home made shop tools/jigs that you haven't shared on your channel, those would be interesting to see.
Can't wait to see your progress on the new shop! There's nothibg more exciting than expanding your work areas. Your use of native woods has really inspired me to start building my own guitar, just bought a slab of box elder & black walnut for bodies & am going to experiment with local red cedar & home depot pine for tops. I'm going to start with a box- style guitar inspired by Steve of Boxwood Guitars in CA. Thank you for all of your work on the channel! I have just started skimming through your videos and they have been incredibly valuable.
Glad to see you back and shop expansion is always a good thing it says things are going well I like your videos and hope you keep up with them and for me I would like to see more fine details like the stupid little things that most people just pass over those stupid little things would mean a lot to this old guy and to let you know I was building guitars and violins in my 20's and 30's but stopped until now that I'm in my mid 60' now that I am retired I am getting back into it and as a custom wood worker all of my life I think it will not be much trouble to do it again I have been doing guitar and violin repairs all my life so it's not new and I am building all the tooling first and trying to get ready thank you for you advise that you give in your videos and like you say I will be the largest guitar builder in Obrien Florida and for now it looks like in the whole North Central Florida area but I just have not been able to find anyone else yet and again thank you for all the help you have given in your videos I pray that God keeps Blessing you with all that you do
I see that someone else in the comments mentioned not having a drum sander. I'm in the same boat, so anything you can share on thicknessing would be helpful. But to get even broader than that, I have really appreciated content about making the tools or jigs used to make the guitar, rather than having to buy more tools. The more content you can share on how to make the things that help us make the guitar, the better. Thanks again for all the great information you share with us.
Good luck with your shop expansion, can't wait to see it. Also, I would love to see a video on how to get a good finish with oil varnishes, if that's something you do.
Hey, I wondered about you. Glad to hear you are well. In terms of a shop, too much space si almost enough and the same applies to sunlight in all seasons but always the case in winter. New construction is always fun. Be careful to have others do the heavy lifting. You wanna be the guy in the white supervisors. Best Regards, .....
Great plan. Glad to see you making life more enjoyable through shop improvements. What I would like to see and hear is that beautiful acoustic bass that you made. In other words how does it sound and relate to the plan? Many thanks. Tom eh
Since you have a commission you're going to be working on, perhaps you'd create a series showing the construction. I know you did a rough series on that bass guitar, but I think it'd be useful to see each step in the creation of a single instrument, your way. Although filming would slow you down, so I realize this is a big ask.
I’d like to See a video on backs and sides you use especially the interesting ones like you showed in that video where you went through your private collection with all sorts of tops ect Listning to all the tap tones
I know you have many projects going, but I was interested in if you are going to send your dull rasps and files to California to get resharpened. I thought you might jump at the chance to get your files and rasps sharpened. Boggs are real pros at what they do, so send your tools for them to work their magic on. Regards, Alton "Bear" Acker Cushman, MA 01002
Have you built a hybrid nylon guitar? That is what they call it. With a radius fingerboard, narrower neck. To have a the playability more like an acoustic
To my knowledge and experience, there is no such thing as a "hybrid" nylon string guitar. Beyond the obvious commonalities of body shape, a neck and a bridged, there is no crossover and very little overlap between steel string and nylon string guitars. Even if you want your nylon string guitar to look like a steel string guitar, putting a radius on a fingerboard, giving a non-classical guitar shape, or whatever else one proposes, the result will be all for naught. A nylon string (classical) guitar is, by its nature more easily played than a steel string instrument because the strings are much more flexible. Necks are wider on nylon string guitars because the strings themselves, being of greater diameter, take up more space on the fingerboard. It needs to be wider. Additionally, the idea that a neck becomes easier to play on as it gets narrower, to a point, is a common but misplace notion. There is little or no point to arching the fingerboard of a nylon string guitar. Classical guitar construction best practices demonstrate that clearly and an arched board may actually be a deterrent to playability. The action of a nylon string guitar must be higher than a steel string guitar, given the increased flexibility of the strings. A guitar intended to use nylon strings must be designed specifically for that purpose. Once again, classical guitar best practices demonstrate this consistently. Put nylon strings on a steel string guitar and you will immediately hear a loss of volume, a muddy, inarticulate tone lacking in strength and harmonics throughout the range of the guitar.
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Thanks Kevin for the update. I'm retiring in 2 weeks, ( 40 + years as cabinet maker), if I lived closer I'd come over and help with your projects. 😂 Good luck
I love watching videos of guitars built from start to finish either as a series or single video.
I would love to see a video on the set up of a guitar. Nut and bridge with intonation. Filing the nut. Setting string height. How you work the saddle at the same time. I have only built one guitar, now on to my second, and the set up is where I struggled the most. And it makes or breaks a guitar. I’ve learned a lot from your channel and always appreciate the sense of humour.
I'll add that to my list. Thanks for the suggestion:)
I apologize if you've already touched on these topics but I'll throw a few out there for you.
I'm primarily a hand tool worker wanting to build my own instruments. I don't owner an electric thickness planer or drum sander. I think a video on how to thin sides without power tools would be informative to those of us without the funds to buy a drum sander.
I see you have some hand tools on your shop wall. A video on when you might find each tool useful would be great!
If you have any other home made shop tools/jigs that you haven't shared on your channel, those would be interesting to see.
Thank you for your suggestions. I will certainly try to include some of those topic in future presentations.
Can't wait to see your progress on the new shop! There's nothibg more exciting than expanding your work areas.
Your use of native woods has really inspired me to start building my own guitar, just bought a slab of box elder & black walnut for bodies & am going to experiment with local red cedar & home depot pine for tops. I'm going to start with a box- style guitar inspired by Steve of Boxwood Guitars in CA.
Thank you for all of your work on the channel! I have just started skimming through your videos and they have been incredibly valuable.
Glad to see you back and shop expansion is always a good thing it says things are going well I like your videos and hope you keep up with them and for me I would like to see more fine details like the stupid little things that most people just pass over those stupid little things would mean a lot to this old guy and to let you know I was building guitars and violins in my 20's and 30's but stopped until now that I'm in my mid 60' now that I am retired I am getting back into it and as a custom wood worker all of my life I think it will not be much trouble to do it again I have been doing guitar and violin repairs all my life so it's not new and I am building all the tooling first and trying to get ready thank you for you advise that you give in your videos and like you say I will be the largest guitar builder in Obrien Florida and for now it looks like in the whole North Central Florida area but I just have not been able to find anyone else yet and again thank you for all the help you have given in your videos I pray that God keeps Blessing you with all that you do
Good to hear from you Kevin.
videos on making a 12 string guitars would be very good for me!! thanks for your generosity and good luck with your new shop
Great shop
I see that someone else in the comments mentioned not having a drum sander. I'm in the same boat, so anything you can share on thicknessing would be helpful. But to get even broader than that, I have really appreciated content about making the tools or jigs used to make the guitar, rather than having to buy more tools. The more content you can share on how to make the things that help us make the guitar, the better. Thanks again for all the great information you share with us.
Thank you. Keep watching. A lot of my videos are aimed at making tools, jig and showing processes that make life a little cheaper when possible.
Sounds like a neat shop expansion.
Good luck with your shop expansion, can't wait to see it. Also, I would love to see a video on how to get a good finish with oil varnishes, if that's something you do.
A beautiful cabinet and guitars! Life getting easier - how does that happen!
A busy luthier is a fantastic thing! Good luck in all your projects.
Busier than a cat coving shi... on a tin roof:)
Ho Boy! exciting! I did a pretty bad job of finishing up to the fretboard and bridge, a vid about that would be nice.
Hey, I wondered about you. Glad to hear you are well. In terms of a shop, too much space si almost enough and the same applies to sunlight in all seasons but always the case in winter. New construction is always fun. Be careful to have others do the heavy lifting. You wanna be the guy in the white supervisors. Best Regards,
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I'll never put myself at risk with this project. I'm building it with one finger; 1-800-Matt the carpenter:)
Great plan. Glad to see you making life more enjoyable through shop improvements. What I would like to see and hear is that beautiful acoustic bass that you made. In other words how does it sound and relate to the plan? Many thanks. Tom eh
Hope it all goes well for you this summer Kevin.
It will be very busy but so much fun.
Since you have a commission you're going to be working on, perhaps you'd create a series showing the construction. I know you did a rough series on that bass guitar, but I think it'd be useful to see each step in the creation of a single instrument, your way. Although filming would slow you down, so I realize this is a big ask.
A pretty massive undertaking, but thanks for the suggestion. I might do that.
I’d like to
See a video on backs and sides you use especially the interesting ones like you showed in that video where you went through your private collection with all sorts of tops ect
Listning to all the tap tones
I'll add this to my list and see if I can come up with something useful and informative. Thank you for your suggestion:)
@@thepragmaticluthier anytime,thank you for the inspiration and being so pragmatic
I know you have many projects going, but I was interested in if you are going to send your dull rasps and files to California to get resharpened. I thought you might jump at the chance to get your files and rasps sharpened. Boggs are real pros at what they do, so send your tools for them to work their magic on.
Regards,
Alton "Bear" Acker
Cushman, MA 01002
Thanks. I may very well do that.
I would like to hear the sound of spruce top , spruce back, cedar sides and cedar neck acoustic guitar, hmmm ?
Have you built a hybrid nylon guitar? That is what they call it. With a radius fingerboard, narrower neck. To have a the playability more like an acoustic
To my knowledge and experience, there is no such thing as a "hybrid" nylon string guitar. Beyond the obvious commonalities of body shape, a neck and a bridged, there is no crossover and very little overlap between steel string and nylon string guitars. Even if you want your nylon string guitar to look like a steel string guitar, putting a radius on a fingerboard, giving a non-classical guitar shape, or whatever else one proposes, the result will be all for naught. A nylon string (classical) guitar is, by its nature more easily played than a steel string instrument because the strings are much more flexible. Necks are wider on nylon string guitars because the strings themselves, being of greater diameter, take up more space on the fingerboard. It needs to be wider. Additionally, the idea that a neck becomes easier to play on as it gets narrower, to a point, is a common but misplace notion. There is little or no point to arching the fingerboard of a nylon string guitar. Classical guitar construction best practices demonstrate that clearly and an arched board may actually be a deterrent to playability. The action of a nylon string guitar must be higher than a steel string guitar, given the increased flexibility of the strings. A guitar intended to use nylon strings must be designed specifically for that purpose. Once again, classical guitar best practices demonstrate this consistently. Put nylon strings on a steel string guitar and you will immediately hear a loss of volume, a muddy, inarticulate tone lacking in strength and harmonics throughout the range of the guitar.
How to get tops and bottoms glued on perfectly… I still am having problems with this step(s) in my builds. Thanks
Could you respond with more specificity ? Are you inquiring about glueing a to or back down, keeping them in alignment? This might be a goo topic.
@@thepragmaticluthier the glue up to the sides… alignments and notching of sides to fit support bars
William Cumpiano once said, If you want to make a small fortune, start with a large fortune and make guitars.
Truer words have never been spoken:)
How about. A neck reset?
Good suggestion. I can do one on resetting a mortise and tenon neck, but i'm not qualified to demonstrate resetting a dovetail.