I love what you guys are doing, both practically and spiritually! That soundboard had more to say, and it's so cool that you're giving it new life in these beautiful, soulful piano guitars. Excellent production too!
Neil, your guitars are amazing! This series of the making of a custom Peterson guitar is fascinating and extremely well done! I’m looking forward to the next chapter!
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?
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
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. 🤣
Wow, just wow! This was amazing to watch. Excellent craftsmanship and great camera work. What did you use to film this with and what did you edit the footage with?
Native Son Wood Art thanks for the nice comments! We shoot all our videos on iPhones (6s) and some GoPro 4 (overhead shots and the moving table saw shots). Adobe premiere for the editing. Keep up the good work on your channel!
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.
@@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!!
I love what you guys are doing, both practically and spiritually! That soundboard had more to say, and it's so cool that you're giving it new life in these beautiful, soulful piano guitars. Excellent production too!
Ashli Pate thank you so much for the encouraging comment! Stay tuned for more uploads of unique guitar build videos!
Neil, Thanks for coming out to get our old piano. I look forward to seeing it with new life.
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That is quite a great way to recycle a Piano. Yes that Piano was played by the great Ella Fitzgerald
I've always wanted to do this!!! Good job.
I love this, this is doing something incredible, thanks for sharing
I'd love to learn how to build guitars. Instruments are one of my passions.
One is being made for me. Im looking very forward to seeing video of it from start to finish.
Hey Keith! Stay tuned, we will be posting regular update videos of your guitar! We already filmed shaping the neck and joining up the back!
Nice Neil ! Thank you!
See you next week !
keith weber looking forward to it!
Awesome! What - may I ask - is the price for one?
Amazing and awesome
Neil, your guitars are amazing! This series of the making of a custom Peterson guitar is fascinating and extremely well done! I’m looking forward to the next chapter!
Thank you! Stay tuned as we will be documenting several of the guitar builds from the materials we repurposed in the video.
Heard Marshal Tucker's 24 Hours At A Time and subscribed.
Haha! Glad you recognized it...Thanks for subscribing!
Excellent job, guys! Tremendous production quality, interesting topic, all-around great episode. I'll definitely be recommending this to friends.
Thank you! Stay tuned for more episodes to be released very soon.
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?
Awesome! Supported your channel...will be binging after work today. Cheers!
From Zero to Homestead thanks! I hope you like the content. I checked out your channel...good stuff!
Thanks! I have a few guitars myself. So this is definitely interesting to me!
Just think of how many vibrations werenmade on that soundboard .. pretty much a guitar with the wood already broke in
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
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. 🤣
Wow, just wow! This was amazing to watch. Excellent craftsmanship and great camera work. What did you use to film this with and what did you edit the footage with?
Native Son Wood Art thanks for the nice comments! We shoot all our videos on iPhones (6s) and some GoPro 4 (overhead shots and the moving table saw shots). Adobe premiere for the editing. Keep up the good work on your channel!
@@homegrownguitars5919 thank you so much, looking forward to seeing more, if you have any scrap pieces of wood you're not using let me know hahaha.
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.
Your 100 year old piano has a soundboard which was probably about 200+ years old when installed
Gee how much is a piano sound board worth? Can I sell my Mendelssohn piano soundboard?