Atkin Guitars Workshop Videos - Ep 5 - How to make braces, brace a guitar top, vacuum pressing a J43
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
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In this episode Mark takes us through a deep dive on how we bake, cut and prepare guitar braces and then shows in detail how we brace a J43 guitar top using one of our vacuum presses. This is one for the geeks amongst you, so brace yourselves! (apologies, we could resist the pun!). This
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00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Geoff Alexander pops by and plays the first classical guitar Alister built and also provides the soundtrack for today's episode.
02:39 - Guitar on show: Kiefer Sutherland's new Pre-War D37.
04:18 - Laurence is building a wall, ready for our 3rd CNC machine.
05:00 - Guitar on show: Brazilian Rosewood and Adirondack Spruce OM37.
05:52 - Bracing a guitar (i) - baked wood stock and the underside of the guitar top.
07:24 - Guitar on show: "The 19" - a smaller take on the J43.
08:33 - Laser cutting braces, laser benefits & efficiencies and brace types.
10:41 - Guitar on show: 00037 - a shorter scale and wider fingerboard take on the OM model.
11:44 - Hand sanding the braces to their final shapes.
13:43 - Final prep, Atkin-specific brace details and dry fit test.
16:00 - Final glue-up with the Atkin clip system and vacuum glue press.
19:15 - The finished braced top
20:32 - That's all folks, bye for now!
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That Brazilian OM!!! Makes you want to weep!!
One day I WILL own one Ali .......One day !
Great series.
Thanks, glad you’re enjoying it. 🪕
I don’t know what I like more. The insights on how you do stuff or the fact that you explain what you do in your wonderful british accents.
I can’t help but I think I’m just in love with your combination of being so amazing at what you do and at the same time so down to earth.
I have my essential D now for about two and a half months after talking to Alister about what I would need and I couldn’t be happier. She’s called Katie and she inspires and pushes me in exactly the way I hoped she would.
Thanks for building these masterpieces. 💜
Thanks very much, we’re flattered!
We hope Katie and you have a very long and happy relationship together ❤️ 🎸
Love to see the constant effort to refine and optimise the whole process. I don't even play acoustic guitar yet but knowing how much care goes into your product (and the fact it's UK made) means you're top of my aspirational list
Thanks for this comment David 👍
Hand made the hard way, hand made to endure!
Strip pine? Is that like your hardware store pine over in the uk? And you guys just mill it to get quartered pieces?
Essentially yes Adrian… our timber merchant is very good to us and picks out the quartered stock for us 👍
Well that’s good to know.... saves me trying to chase down spruce. Plenty of pine here in OZ. Are you shaping your braces lighter or basically the same as you would for spruce. Just thinking in terms of weight. Not a huge difference between the two but.
What are those clips you use on the soundboard to align the braces? I’d love to implement those into my builds here in the US.
We make them in house. 💥
Are you tuning your tops and braces? Thanks
Hi David, no we don’t tune our tops. We go on feel. When we thickness our tops we flex them to see how stable they are and then we adjust them accordingly. Because all of our tops are baked they come out of the oven sounding more lively then before they went in. I think repeating this for so many years and keeping notes on what sounds good has helped us to control our tune. 👍🪕