Fantastic build, sir! Great work. I am a hobby luthier myself, and am working toward starting a business. We seem to be very similar in how we work, especially with making our own tools for the job. That is par for the coarse n lutherie. I do have a note for you about your braces. Make sure your grain orientation is vertical in the braces, not horizontal. All your braces seem to be flat sawn instead of on the quarter. That will give more strength to the brace and better and clearer tone. Also it will keep them from cracking along a grain line as well.
Great save on the rosette! - and that indgrain pattern is just fantastic, good choice! I've picked up a couple of useful tips from your videos, thanks.
I like the endgrain pattern you did on the rosette it looks cool. I’m going to be building a parlor guitar this summer I have built 4 tenor ukuleles to practice Man I made so many mistakes one was like you cutting the rosette opening a fraction to large, it’s nice when builders show their mistakes & how they fix them. Great job & Thank you for sharing.
Thanks a lot for sharing the video, great channel! Question, is there a reason you used a flat sawn blanks for your braces? As far as I know a quarter-sawn blanks are usually used to gain higher stiffness-to-weight ratio. Good luck building further guitars!
It was lack of knowledge at the time - I didnt consider it. I've built a couple guitars since with quartersawn braces. Interestingly, this guitar sounds really good and has been structurally stable. Given enough time the braces may split or come loose, but I'm curious as to how long that will take.
Yeah... I realized that but it was after everything was glued up already. From what I've read wood is actually stiffer when loaded square to the grain (the way I did it), but I'm not sure how it'll affect the tone. It's already a parlor guitar with knots in the top plate though, so I'm hopeful that the brace grain direction won't matter too much.
Nice rosette fix
Fantastic build, sir! Great work. I am a hobby luthier myself, and am working toward starting a business. We seem to be very similar in how we work, especially with making our own tools for the job. That is par for the coarse n lutherie. I do have a note for you about your braces. Make sure your grain orientation is vertical in the braces, not horizontal. All your braces seem to be flat sawn instead of on the quarter. That will give more strength to the brace and better and clearer tone. Also it will keep them from cracking along a grain line as well.
Thank you! You're absolutely right about the braces - I didn't know better at the time of this build.
Looks great, goes to show you don't need to spend 100s on exotic wood to get a beautiful instrument. Can't wait to hear it!
Really nice work. The rose is gorgeous
Awesome work! I'm patiently waiting for your next video!
It's coming! A lot of side projects have come up around the house with spring here, so I've been busy, but the next vid should be up soon!
Hi Colin, very impressed by your build and you attention to detail.
Wow, such an involved process. Watching you do this I almost feel ashamed for saying I'm building an instrument. It's nothing compared to this.
Thanks for your kind words! But trust me, I only just *barely* know what I'm doing, and only half the time. Good luck on your build!
Nice work fella looking good👍
Beautiful work.
Awesome
Great save on the rosette! - and that indgrain pattern is just fantastic, good choice! I've picked up a couple of useful tips from your videos, thanks.
Thank you!
Great work 🙂
I like the endgrain pattern you did on the rosette it looks cool. I’m going to be building a parlor guitar this summer I have built 4 tenor ukuleles to practice Man I made so many mistakes one was like you cutting the rosette opening a fraction to large, it’s nice when builders show their mistakes & how they fix them. Great job & Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
Really cool build so far!
Thanks!
Iam really interested in that drum sander!!
Thanks! I just redesigned it, actually - it'll be in upcoming videos. Maybe I'll do a vid explaining how it's put together.
Thanks a lot for sharing the video, great channel!
Question, is there a reason you used a flat sawn blanks for your braces? As far as I know a quarter-sawn blanks are usually used to gain higher stiffness-to-weight ratio.
Good luck building further guitars!
It was lack of knowledge at the time - I didnt consider it. I've built a couple guitars since with quartersawn braces. Interestingly, this guitar sounds really good and has been structurally stable. Given enough time the braces may split or come loose, but I'm curious as to how long that will take.
Hi. The bracing grains is vertical, not horizontal😬
Yeah... I realized that but it was after everything was glued up already. From what I've read wood is actually stiffer when loaded square to the grain (the way I did it), but I'm not sure how it'll affect the tone. It's already a parlor guitar with knots in the top plate though, so I'm hopeful that the brace grain direction won't matter too much.
@@BWorks It'll crack in the long run and causing sympathetic buzz which will lead to top plate warping or imploding and rebracing will be required
If I get a crack or loose brace I'll be sure to fix it before the guitar implodes. So far it's survived the seasonal changes - only time will tell
@@BWorks have you build another one?