Tom Sands is renowned for building some of the world's most responsive guitars.
Since apprenticing for Ervin Somogyi, Tom's taken his talents to North Yorkshire, England, building custom acoustic guitars from the Tom Sands Guitars workshop. Subscribe to the channel for weekly videos ranging from Tommy’s Tonewoods, Guitar rundowns, to beautiful live sessions from independent artists. Join the community here, we love ya x
Explanation at the end of how the neck & bridge influences the sound was great. I had heard that before in relation to the bridge but didn’t realise the neck would affect how the whole instrument would vibrate and potentially drain the energy the guitar needs to generate sound. I can bore people down the pub now with these facts. “Hey lads…” 🤓
Brazilian rosewood is the best wood that you can buy for guitars.. nothing can beat Brazilian rosewood.. I have 3 guitars made of Brazilian rosewood and I can say they are incredible sound.. I say that they easily worth like 5000 euros..
Enjoyed that very much Tom. Useful tips to boot :) And yes 'organic' is the word. CNC built guitars to me just don't feel right - 'sterile' Some lucky person will love playing that I am sure. Well done fellow. John.
If that fretless bit of the fingerboard that goes over the regular frets is detachable that's really cool. It's cool to begin with, but the idea of being able to just clip on an accessory to make some or all of a regular fretboard into a fretless instrument is really inspiring. I don't think that you could change it in the middle of a gig, but it's a really cool idea that would make fretless instruments much more accessible, as well as permitting the use of modes that fall outside of 12tet (for instance, you could authentically recreate melodies and chord voicings from Arab musical traditions that are currently not available on western instruments)
I think it would be more interesting if you did the listen test without knowing what the configuration is. I wonder if your observations would be the same.
This is Tasmanian (Australian) blackwood not african blackwood. It is a species of acacia just like KOA, it is considered the ancestral species of KOA. Low frequencies sound better on australian blackood.
@@TomSandsGuitars Sorry. It was not for here that I wrote. I bought a Cort Core OC all solid guitar (blackwood). It sounds terrible from the factory. I had to make changes to it and now it sounds really good, different from everything I have. For example, high frequencies have no shine, overtones. I used 2 drilled brass pins for high E and B and now it's much better. Under the saddle pickup kills the sound
I wish we could share some knowledge some day, some video. I’ve been nerdy about tone woods for 30 years and it’s rare to find a fellow nerd. Can we talk about torrefied tops? I know the real deal story about how we approach tops, bracing, and historic features. It’s no secret!
I wish we could share some knowledge some day, some video. I’ve been nerdy about tone woods for 30 years and it’s rare to find a fellow nerd. Let’s tawk…
I had the opportunity to examine a pile of Sinker redwood tops aside of Adirondack AAA spruce tops. We started tapping tops and we all looked at each other with smiles. The redwood was just so responsive in every way. Hands down, redwood really surprised me.
I just got a PRS Private Stock electric with a 2-piece Macassar and OMG... it's beyond amazing to look at.... and 2 piece is apparently a big deal since they usually do 3-4 piece.
fascinating video, lovely sets of wood, i seen some of the prices of them builds you shown 18k etc i guess that a taylor or martin are using cheap versions of these woods ? and also the fact the guitars you guys are building are all hand crafted an that also incrreaes the price a lot or are the woods taylor and martin use the same quality ?
Taylor and Martin are producing hundreds of thousands of instruments per year, we produce 12-15. Economies of scale are a big part of the price disparity, but quality of materials, design and execution, process and customer interaction are the main factor.
The Mear and Gray OM28 is £4250... that's $5,434.60! What's the incentive for a player to purchase them if Martin's are less costly, more readily available and sound just as good?
Hi Tom, you amazed me with this wood. Ive never heard or seen this one and I heard what you were tapping. Baroni was my favorite substitute for Brazilian. If you look at the pore structure it’s almost identical to Brazilian. MJS
