Answering Google's most asked LUTHIER QUESTIONS!!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
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00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Question 1 - What is a luthier?
00:30 - Question 2 - What is it called 'luthier'?
00:59 - Question 3 - How much money do luthiers make?
01:45 - Question 4 - How do I start in lutherie?
02:55 - Questions 5 - What does it take to become a good luthier?
04:20 - Question 6 - How many hours does it take to build a guitar?
05:20 - Question 7 - Is it easier to build an electric or acoustic?
06:42 - Question 8 - What makes a good luthier?
07:40 - Question 9 - Who's the most famous luthier?
09:10 - Question 10 - Are guitar sales declining? 
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Youre videos are the best Tom! I am hooked on your channel and have learned so much and i dont even make guitars. Thanks for all of the great content!
So welcome
Thanks for the video Tom.
Always look forward to it.
I would much rather see a Tommys Tonewoods or build video, but Ill take what I can get!
There’s more coming!
What makes a 'Good' anything.?????
A: Steve Morse was asked how someone could be as good as him at playing guitar (reshaped question to 'being the best/ most competent that they could be) then said the following - Application! If someone asks you to clean the floor, do it to the best of your ability!. Embracing the menial aspects of life will give you the right mindset for fulfilling goals/tasks that are important to you.
Making the inside of your guitar as beautiful & clean as the visible exterior is one example. It starts with desire, it's driven by determination and it never ends - one life ain't enough!
Cool comment. Sometimes the actual answers are as simple as this
Enjoyable video as usual...as to the genesis of the term luthier, luthiers originally built lutes, strummed, plucked and sometimes bowed instruments that some say go back 3000 years. Lutes have several strings, a long narrow neck, a bowl shaped body, and of course are built out of wood;)
Sweet video!!! Your gold chariots are awesome!
I’ll give you a ride sometime
@@TomSandsGuitars 😜
Guitarchitect. Brilliant.
Fantastic Tom so good your channel. If ever there was a case for someone living the dream and ending up in one of those “Yorkshire Life” magazines then it’s Tom Sands. Seriously though I don’t think any Luthier has ever gotten into making guitars with thoughts of becoming rich as the materials and hours do explain the price imo
Thanks Andrew
I learned so much with that
Thank you
I really like the answer to the last question! As a noobthier, now I know the future is solid. Solid as your gold car.
🤣
You and your solid gold cars.
Very interesting Tom, a luthier is a box with strings maker with a neck. So what's a piano builder called? It's a big box with strings and keys no neck 😊 1, Antonio Stradivari
2. C F Martin 3 Tom Sands Hehe
🙏🙏🙏
Loved the video Tom but I don’t believe Martin started offering steel strings until the early 1900’s-1910’s.
Tom only says he moved to nyc around 1833
"What is a luthier"
The question that defined and set the mood of the video💯🔥
Thanks for watching Allan
Good video. Which is harder, acoustic or electric - good question, good answer. Which is harder to make, a Sam Malouf chair, or a Louis XIV chair - if made perfectly, they are the same. 😉
Well said!
I wish there was a job fair for luthier apprenticeships where you could be hooked up with some professionals looking for some underlings
You don’t need a job fair when you have the most powerful communication device in history in the palm of your hand. Just send out emails, DM’s, WhatsApp’s, you’ll make the right connection! Persist! 💪
@@TomSandsGuitars ….oh yeah 🤦♂️
Tom , if it's not prying too much , what's it like to work with Ervin ?
That’s one for another video!
Love it ❤ now do 73 questions like vogue
Will have to look that one up!
The most obvious name of what we view as handmade boutique guitars would have to be your mentor Ervin Symogyi
Agreed
Luthiers question for the tap tone-aholics. Why do luthiers on RUclips only ever demo tap tone while the wood is not resembling a guitar? I'd love to see you tap a piece of rectangular 5mm thick wood and then tap the same piece when it's 2 or 3 mm thick, braced and shaped like a guitar. The difference between these tones is the important info we don't get from anyone...yet. Love your stuff anyway :)
They just want to see if it has resonance to begin with.
While you want a resonant piece to begin with, once you have the top thicknessed and braces glued, I’d say a good starting point to listen for is tapping it at least 3 different points around in a triangle around the bridge plate. Listen for those pitches to be different. Good rule of thumb is to have clear different tones in different places around the top. The braces are only there for support of the string pressure and you want the top to vibrate as much as possible, so really the process is bringing it as close to collapsing as possible without actually doing so. This is my understanding of it at least. Dana Bourgeois has a great video here on RUclips of brace carving and what to look for!
All pieces of wood are different, even from the same species and the same tree. The tap test will give you an indication of how resonant a piece of wood is comparatively. I do like your idea of comparing the same piece of wood to itself at varying degrees of thickness etc.
This is why I love guitar making, everyone has a different approach. Mine is to make sure that the tones are the same at equidistant points and graduate evenly in respect of the perimeter/rim. I would also argue that bracing is not only for reintroducing structure to a thinned place but as conduit for the transmission of vibrational energy. 🙏
What is a Luthier will be 1st. Yes, yes it was
If we’re just talking about who is the most globally famous luthier, Stradivarius hands down. 😂
Of course, but for me as a steel string guitar maker and on a channel about acoustic guitar, it has to be Martín.
Air guitar is always the easiest to build.
Cigar box guitars are just as easy
Lol im the first here
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I wish I earned 31k last year
Dude seriously
Yep. But working on it. Making the big push now after visiting looths in the USA. Seeing how they do things has been inspiring.
@@andrewmorrish4296 looked like such a fun trip! Looks like you’ve really found your people!